[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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