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Building an ARM64 laptop

Posted Sep 17, 2017 7:44 UTC (Sun) by jani (subscriber, #74547)
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My pet peeve, I wish people would stop using "MIPI" in reference to displays or connections. It's an organization that develops interface specifications. They have several display interface specs, among a plethora of other specs. We don't call Display Port "VESA displays" either.

In this case, they're referring to MIPI Display Serial Interface, or just DSI for short.

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Building an ARM64 laptop

Posted Sep 17, 2017 19:43 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

I find "MIPI Display" to work well, it's a very good trade-off between correctness, terseness and understandability, googlability,..

> We don't call Display Port "VESA displays" either.

Well this wouldn't work because - unlike MIPI - VESA has done more for "displays" than just DisplayPort.

Consistency doesn't matter to branding.

"DisplayPort" managed to create a well known brand out of common nouns by merely dropping the whitespace between the two words. Again it's non-ambiguous, terse and understandable (no acronym). So well done and be it.

Building an ARM64 laptop

Posted Sep 17, 2017 22:25 UTC (Sun) by dtalen (subscriber, #86448) [Link]

In this case it may matter, however. MIPI developed both CSI and DSI standards, so it's ambiguous to just say "MIPI." Bridge chips exist for both standards so it's useful to clarify which you're talking about.