Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/cpu: Add new Intel Atom CPU model name
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 11:40:31 EST
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:48:05PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
>
> >> +#define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_AIRMONT_NP 0x75 /* Lightning Mountain */
> >
> > What's _NP ?
>
> Network Processor. But that is too narrow a descriptor. This is going to be used in
> other areas besides networking.
>
> Iâm contemplating calling it AIRMONT2
What would describe the special sause that warranted a new SOC? If this
thing is marketed as 'Network Processor' then I suppose we can actually
use it, esp. if we're going to see this more, like the MID thing -- that
lived for a while over multiple uarchs.
Note that for the big cores we added the NNPI thing, which was for
Neural Network Processing something.