Re: [PATCH 22/27] target/ppc: cpu_init: Rename register_ne_601_sprs

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 10:19:40AM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 06:41:43PM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> >> The important part of this function is that it applies to non-embedded
> >> CPUs, not that it also applies to the 601. We removed support for the
> >> 601 anyway, so rename this function.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >
> > Although, I wonder if "books_common" or something might be a better
> > name, though.  Admittedly, I don't think the "BookS" terminology
> > existed at the time of most of these earlier CPUs.  However, these
> > days the majority of 7xx chips are probably in embedded applications,
> > even if they weren't designed for an embedded chip line.
> 
> The 'ne' in the original name was probably meant to signify
> not-BookE. So non_booke perhaps would work? The thing with calling it
> books_common is that we're using BookS only for the 970 and upwards and
> this function applies to 6xx, 7xx, 74xx as well.

So, an informal server / embedded split is older than the "Book S"
vs. "Book E" terminology, so it's a question of whether we want to
apply the newer terminology to the older systems.  As you say, that's
arguably problematic for BookS, but it's equally troublesome for "not
BookE": 40x and possibly 44x as well also predate the "Book E"
terminology (and certainly don't meet even the earliest version of the
Book E spec).  However they are from the "embedded" branch of cpu
models, and do not have the registers that the ne_601 function
creates.

Naming things is hard :/.

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