Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.13 v2 2/2] docs: Replace all instance of ARM by Arm

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am OK switching to "Arm", however I would do it post-4.13: this is not
the kind of thing we should worry about it now I think.

On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gentle, ping. I don't think there are any conclusion here.
> 
> Should we stick to ARM or move to Arm?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On 10/3/19 5:02 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 03/10/2019 16:55, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote:
> > > Julien Grall writes:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Stefano,
> > > > 
> > > > On 10/2/19 2:05 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > > > > The documentation is using a mix of ARM (old) and Arm (new). To stay
> > > > > > consistent, use only the new name.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank you for the patch, it must have been "not fun" to write this
> > > > > patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > However, let me suggest a radical maybe controversial idea. What about
> > > > > keeping "ARM" instead of switching? There are several advantages: it
> > > > > is
> > > > > easier to grep, no need to worry about case-sensitivity. It is what
> > > > > people are used to, and what still use (in my experience at conference
> > > > > and at work.) Would it make sense to ignore Arm's marketing and keep
> > > > > the
> > > > > old "ARM" nomenclature?
> > > > 
> > > > Pretty much all the new documentation on Arm website are now using Arm
> > > > (the spec is now called Arm Arm).
> > > This confuses me, because I believed that second "Arm" stands for
> > > Architecture Reference Manual.
> > Sorry it is Arm ARM. But they tend to use the longer name Arm Architecture
> > Reference Manual.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > If not, I'd suggest to also replace "arm" with "Arm" so that at least
> > > > > with have consistent cases everywhere. But then the pathnames would
> > > > > remain xen/arch/arm, leading to sentences such as:
> > > > > 
> > > > >    (non-zImage)" protocol described in arm/Booting.
> > > > >       There are no exception on 64-bit Arm.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With "arm" and "ARM" the distinction was clear between pathnames and
> > > > > text (at least to me.) With "arm" and "Arm", I know it is silly but it
> > > > > kind of bothers me :-)
> > > > 
> > > > How do you deal with Xilinx then? ;)
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am not going to insist on this one though.
> > > > 
> > > > This is quite similar to a company renaming itself (or got acquired
> > > > and the name completely disappear) but in a less radical way. Would
> > > > you still keep the old name company in your documentation and/or
> > > > mixing the both?
> > > BTW, this if what happened with Freescale/NXP. Linux and U-Boot still
> > > use "freescale" even for i.MX8 chips.
> > 
> > Maybe because nobody bothered to do it? I would like some consistency in the
> > documentation and hence using the new name makes sense. But I am not
> > bothered enough to argue whether we should stay in the past.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall
>

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