On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 at 13:35, Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 01:06:44PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > We should probably do another fix-capitalization pass on docs/,
> > because a bunch more "ARM" uses have crept in since 6fe6d6c9a95.
>
> I can tack it to v2 of this.  I see about 22 occurrences in docs/:
>
>     $> git grep "ARM " | wc -l
>     22
>
> > (6fe6d6c9a95's commit message says that architecture names like
> > "ARMv8" retain all-caps, but I think that was my personal taste
> > creeping in -- at any rate the current Arm ARM uses "Armv8",
> > "Armv9", etc. It was right that "ARM926" etc should stay all-caps,
> > though.)
>
> Okay, so, architecture names should stick to "Armv8", etc.  (I too
> would have preferred "ARMv8", but whatever the branding says.)
>
> For all-caps: I assume you mean these should remain as-is: ARM926EJ-S,
> ARM1176JZS, ARM1176, etc.

Yes.

(We also have two instances of "ARM64" which isn't an Arm
official term at all and should maybe be "AArch64". If we
leave it as-is, I have no idea what capitalization to use
for it.)

thanks
-- PMM

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