From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:23:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com>
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance if this is a naive comment or has been
> brought up before. With all the non amd processors now with 64bit
> support. amd64 as a keyword seems a bit odd and off maybe.
>
> What's the possibility of switching amd64 to x86_64?
>
> Unless the work to do that is greater than the value of the change.
As the benefit is close to nothing IMO the required work is definitely
greater by several orders of magnitude.
Marius
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 17:59 [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 William L. Thomson Jr.
2008-02-20 18:13 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-02-20 18:23 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2008-02-20 18:40 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-02-21 15:02 ` Marius Mauch
2008-02-21 18:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-02-21 21:35 ` Wernfried Haas
2008-02-21 21:37 ` Josh Saddler
2008-02-21 22:26 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2008-02-22 12:41 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-02-28 23:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Bernd Steinhauser
2008-02-29 7:12 ` Ben de Groot
2008-02-29 7:56 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-03-02 13:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-02-20 20:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christoph Mende
2008-02-21 1:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-02-21 5:27 ` Andrew Cowie
2008-02-21 6:30 ` Olivier Crête
2008-02-21 8:05 ` Ioannis Aslanidis
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