On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 05:12:53PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> The INTEL_FAM6 list has become a mess again. Try and bring some sanity
> back into it.
>
> Where previously we had one microarch per year and a number of SKUs
> within that, this no longer seems to be the case. We now get dfferent
"different"
> uarch names that share a 'core' design.
Soon it'll be all an unrecognizable mess with IP blocks tetris. :-)
> Add the core name starting at skylake and reorder to keep the cores in
> chronological order. Furthermore, Intel marketed the names {Amber,
> Coffee, Whiskey} Lake, but those are in fact steppings of Kaby Lake, add
> comments for them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> ---
> Note: we don't seem to have CANNONLAKE perf support.
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h | 50
> +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
Anything that helps clear more of this names confusion:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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