Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/cpu: Add new Intel Atom CPU model name
From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 10:21:02 EST
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 7 10:17:27 2018 -0700
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> x86/cpu: Sanitize FAM6_ATOM naming
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> What 2 or 3 or other number means?
In this case I want it to mean “This is an Airmont derived core. Mostly like original Airmont, so you might see some places where we have the same model specific actions. But enough different that it has a new model ID so places where it is different can do something else”.
-Tony