[U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Apr 12 20:22:41 CEST 2010
Timur Tabi wrote:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> We should use standardized names now, i. e. GiB, MiB, KiB, etc.
>
> Ugh. I'm not sure everyone recognizes those acronyms. I'm expecting a lot of people to say, "What the hell is MiB? Men in Black?"
It's used often enough (including many places in U-Boot already), and
there's typically enough context, that I don't think too many would be
confused.
It comes up early in the Google results for "kiB", "MiB", etc. for those
who do find it unfamiliar.
-Scott
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