From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:16:10 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2008.10.10.00.16.10@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20081010000500.b405d25b.genone@gentoo.org
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> posted
20081010000500.b405d25b.genone@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 10
Oct 2008 00:05:00 +0200:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:11:01 +0200
> Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> 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.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 18:11 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Fabian Groffen
2008-10-09 22:05 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 0:16 ` Duncan [this message]
2008-10-10 2:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 7:15 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 12:40 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-10-10 12:48 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 15:56 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 16:13 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-10 15:21 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-10 8:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-10 12:56 ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-13 5:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-13 14:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-13 17:59 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-14 7:48 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-15 10:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-17 14:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-21 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-10-21 19:01 ` Fabian Groffen
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