[PATCH 04/10] Convert CONFIG_PHYSMEM to Kconfig

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 16:46:35 CET 2021


On 11/17/21 10:29 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 11/17/21 16:03, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> On 11/17/21 4:15 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>> On 11/17/21 03:48, Simon Glass wrote:
> <snip />
>>>>>
>>>>> %s/4GB/4 GiB/
>>>>
>>>> Please let's not add that junk to U-Boot.
>>>
>>> 4GB = 4,000,000,000 bytes period.
>>
>> Only if you're a hard drive manufacturer ;)
> 
> I suggest reading ISO/IEC 80000-13:2008.

FWIW I like how truncate(1) does it:

> Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of
> 1000). Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.

Which leaves the awkward units alone, and reserves the most convenient
suffixes for natural units.

--Sean


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