From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAuJg-00032y-CR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:01:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81IvpWm002632; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:57:51 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81IsWgR032590 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:54:33 GMT Received: from [38.112.17.94] (helo=[192.168.1.145]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EAuFA-0001WJ-Q7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:57:01 +0000 Message-ID: <43174EFC.7060407@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:57:00 -0500 From: Mike Doty Organization: gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050712) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dc8a4dbb-670e-4de2-b09a-d68773339d31 X-Archives-Hash: 253a968236609d37655b7de1ee24b0bf Grant Goodyear wrote: > The recent discussion about having a "real" x86 arch team and combining > the x86 and amd64 keywords was both interesting and provocative. Of > course, this is the sort of thing that the GLEP system was meant for. > Now that we have a new council that (I hope) will be active in approving > or rejecting GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about > combining x86 and amd64? > > -g2boojum- This will not happen. Years down the road AMD64 may absorb the remaining x86 issues, but AMD64 will certainly never be run like x86 has been. Mike Doty -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list