[PATCH 8/9] 8xx: Adder 875 support

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Sep 7 05:12:55 EST 2007


On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>>>+	model = "Analogue & Micro Adder MPC875";
> >>>>
> >>>>This should probably be just "MPC875".
> >>>
> >>>There's more than one board with an MPC875 on it.
> >>
> >>"model" is the model name the vendor uses.  It isn't supposed to
> >>be unique globally, nor does it say what CPU is on the board.
> >
> >The name the vendor uses is "Adder MPC875".  The name of the vendor is
> >"Analogue & Micro", which seems useful to include, even if it's not
> >mandatory that it be globally unique.
> 
> So it should be "Adder MPC875", then :-)

Any particular reason to leave out potentially useful information in a
field that is for human consumption?

Other than Because Segher Says So(tm). :-)

-Scott



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