From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRtcZ-00066r-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:24:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECD3CE03CE; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslb-082-083-013-030.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.13.30]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A802CE03CE for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id 4F3CD281DC; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:23:14 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 (2007-02-13) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from sheridan (sheridan.genone.homeip.net [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A1928280C3 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:23:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:23:26 +0100 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Message-Id: <20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> References: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-mingw32) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cdbf2503-ae25-4d38-8832-055186a2d627 X-Archives-Hash: 4f4098ec3c080ce75c124b766d2a775b On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." 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 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list