From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965223AbXBLWhK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965427AbXBLWhK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:10 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57820 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965223AbXBLWhI (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:08 -0500 Message-ID: <45D0EC39.8030608@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:45 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH x86 for review III] [17/29] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo References: <20070212551.664370000@suse.de> <20070212165137.AD85913E1B@wotan.suse.de> <45D0E60F.2090506@redhat.com> <200702122323.53364.andi@firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <200702122323.53364.andi@firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: >> Since we seem to have become the place where all these are collected, >> shouldn't we document what they mean? > > This is not a data sheet and the CPU vendors have fine tech writers > working on this already. > > Also I don't really want to encourage people to hack this without > at least taking a basic look at the documentation first. > >> I've got some this machine that >> I'd like to know more about: >> >> dts ss ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr > > All documented in Intel documentation. But it's all relatively boring stuff > > dts = debug trace store > ss = self snoop > ds_cpl = cpl qualified debug store > est = enhanced speedstep > tm2 = thermal monitor 2 > ssse3 = more sse3 instructions > xtpr = tpr register chipset update control msr > That's exactly what I was asking for. Our abbreviations are too cryptic to let someone go look up the meanings without a lot of trouble. A one-liner for each in the comments would be just enough.