Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 10:36, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > * ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040322 18:30]: > > > > It refers to the Hypertransport Links, Down (LDT0), Across (LDT1), UP > > > > (LDT2). > > > > > > I think I picked these names, and if I did I will take the blame: they are > > > hard to remember. > > > > These names are also spread across several pieces of AMD64 and > > Hypertransport documentation, since it illustrates hypertransport > > graphs of different wiring quite nice. Still, it's unclear from a > > technical point of view. > > > > > Should we bite the bullet and change the names? ldt0, ldt1, ldt2? > > > > Should not be too hard, since we are not really using them heavily. I > > still have some defines used in coherent_ht.c which should go away > > and replaced by something more sophisticated. > > > > >From my understanding of the AMD docs, the mapping between LDT0-2 to > up, down, across is not that simple and static. "Up" can be either > LTD0 or LDT1 or LDT2 so as for "down" and "across". > > The terminology 'link' is heavily and badly overloaded in LinuxBIOS, > we have link for HT links and link for how many branches a device > has (bridges have two 'links'), and there are some other link I have > no idea about. > > The same happens for the field name "enable" of some structures. Some > of them are verbs (enable() operation), some others are actually > adjectives (been 'enabled'). I though that I am the ONLY who can't > speak English in LinuxBIOS project.
The challenge is the lack of good alternative names. Suggestions for better alternatives are welcome before we freeze the freebios2 tree. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
