[dpdk-dev] Correct use of Arm related names

Honnappa Nagarahalli Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
Wed Oct 10 06:39:11 CEST 2018


Apologies, removing the disclaimer at the bottom. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Honnappa Nagarahalli
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 11:37 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Jacob, Jerin <Jerin.JacobKollanukkaran at cavium.com>; Gavin Hu (Arm
> Technology China) <Gavin.Hu at arm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; debayang.qdt
> <debayang.qdt at qualcommdatacenter.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Correct use of Arm related names
> 
> Hi,
> This email was triggered by a request to change ARM to Arm in the dpdk.org
> webpage. I went down the path of finding out the correct names to use. There
> has not been consistency in using these names across all other projects. So,
> the recommendation I have got is, 'choose something and use it consistently'
> (within the DPDK project). Following are my recommendations (please notice
> the lower/upper case of the letters):
> 
> Architectural State:
> aarch64/arm64 - referring to aarch64 state - recommended: aarch64
> aarch32/arm32 - referring to aarch32 state - recommended: aarch32 (arm32
> might create confusion with armv7)
> 
> ISA:
> armv8.x
> armv7.x
> 
> Any reference to Company name:
> Arm
> 
> So, everything is lower case except when referring to the company (for ex:
> Copyright) name.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Thank you,
> Honnappa


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