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 1KoCDa-0007w0-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7DDEE079C; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hyves.org (mx1.hyves.org [85.17.225.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87774E079C for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (217-124-dsl.ipact.nl [82.210.124.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hyves.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFC7A881A8 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:15:16 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Message-ID: <20081010071516.GA12145@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20081009181101.GE21770@gentoo.org> <20081010000500.b405d25b.genone@gentoo.org> <20081010042123.f5c2b7f9.genone@gentoo.org> 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081010042123.f5c2b7f9.genone@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (Darwin 9.5.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: d36158c9-ad90-4118-9a16-c67a4d5be47c X-Archives-Hash: 7223d5689e0c7926236913a789763bf4 On 10-10-2008 04:21:23 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > >> amd64-linux > > >> x64-openbsd > > >> x64-solaris > > > > > > Is there a special reason why you're using "x64" instead of "amd64" > > > in those cases? (IMO x64 is the most stupid name for the x86_64 > > > architecture) > > > > AFAIK, that's not amd64/x86_64, but rather ia64, aka itanic aka > > itanium. At least, that's how I'd interpret them since I've seen that > > abbreviation made before, particularly since there's already amd64 in > > context. > > No, x64 is the marketing name Microsoft made up for x86_64 (aka amd64, > ia32e and Intel 64), as "Windows for x86_64" doesn't sound that sexy, > and was later adopted by Sun and others. > ia64/Itanium doesn't have any other alias names AFAIK. We simply found that: - amd64 is misleading - em64t would be more to the point for some? - x64 is what the vendors (Apple, Sun) advertise themselves - amd64 doesn't make any sense for a Mac - x64 is more like x86, whereas the complement of amd64 would more be i386 or ia32, but we wanted to avoid x86_64, x8664, so x64 - we were changing keywords anyway -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level