[PATCH 04/10] Convert CONFIG_PHYSMEM to Kconfig

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:46:35AM -0500, Sean Anderson wrote:
> 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.

We're currently not at all consistent in Kconfig text, and I didn't
check doc/ (where I suspect Heinrich has been enforcing consistency).

I do feel like the truncate(1) method is a good compromise.

-- 
Tom
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