[PATCH 08/13] ARM: dts: armada-385-linksys: use binary unit prefixes

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue May 23 05:02:37 PDT 2017


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:33:02AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:16 +0200
> Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 May 2017 17:00:01 +0200
> > Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:  
> > > > Use IEEE 1541-2002 unit prefixes for sizes.    
> > > 
> > > Does ePAPR recommend this?  
> > 
> > Not directly, but the paper (v1.1) itself is using MiB as well which
> > could be seen as a recommendation.
> 
> Found the pdf again on the web, so here a link:
> http://elinux.org/images/c/cf/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf
> 
> Funny thing it's using KB(instead of KiB) and MiB. So it's
> inconsistent, also the unit with SI prefix would be kB and not KB. So
> I'd say ePAPR doesn't care / the authors didn't pay any attention to
> this.

Hi Ralph

Thanks for checking into this.

My preference, and it is only a preference, is to not do this. Keep
with MB, KB.

   Andrew



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