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Originally posted by flashmozzg View PostI think It's pretty idiotic to think that the only reason for codenames to exist is to prevent someone from connecting some driver code updates with something else.
They simply exist because the chip needs a name.
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Originally posted by Berniyh View Post
It's pretty idiotic, tbh. I mean it's clear they're trying to do this to prevent people connecting codenames in the driver code to codenames out in the wild for specific chips.
Which is pretty understandable. It's just though that in the future it makes everything harder for everybody to understand (including the AMD people) for pretty much no gain whatsoever.
So far we (meaning the internet community) have been able to figure out these connections between the codenames within days (or sometimes within hours), so in the end, it really is of no use at all.
btw. in this case it's most likely not Cezanne, but instead Lucienne, which seems to be a variant/refresh of Renoir.
Lucienne Bisson was a daughter of Renoir (hence the connection).
They simply exist because the chip needs a name. It needs to be called somehow internally. All those RX 9001 & Knuckles are for marketing and can be changed on a whim. There is a long time before it gets to that point and still needs some name.
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Originally posted by Berniyh View Post
It's pretty idiotic, tbh. I mean it's clear they're trying to do this to prevent people connecting codenames in the driver code to codenames out in the wild for specific chips.
Which is pretty understandable. It's just though that in the future it makes everything harder for everybody to understand (including the AMD people) for pretty much no gain whatsoever.
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
The only time we had a problem was on a troubleshooting call a couple of months ago - one of the engineers mentioned that he thought a particular line of investigation was a red herring, and then we had to explain to some people unfamiliar with the term that no this was not the code name for a new chip they had never heard of.
Hopefully a one time problem; we just have to be a bit more careful when talking about red herrings.
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Originally posted by Berniyh View PostIt's just though that in the future it makes everything harder for everybody to understand (including the AMD people) for pretty much no gain whatsoever.
Hopefully a one time problem; we just have to be a bit more careful when talking about red herrings.Last edited by bridgman; 02 October 2020, 01:50 PM.
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Originally posted by kiffmet View PostThere is something fishy going on with AMD RTG codenames these days.
Which is pretty understandable. It's just though that in the future it makes everything harder for everybody to understand (including the AMD people) for pretty much no gain whatsoever.
So far we (meaning the internet community) have been able to figure out these connections between the codenames within days (or sometimes within hours), so in the end, it really is of no use at all.
btw. in this case it's most likely not Cezanne, but instead Lucienne, which seems to be a variant/refresh of Renoir.
Lucienne Bisson was a daughter of Renoir (hence the connection).
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There is something fishy going on with AMD RTG codenames these days.
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