Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2012 01:45:15 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port |
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On Saturday 2012-07-07 21:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >On Saturday 07 July 2012, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> > ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture >> >> With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How >> about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? > >I agree the name sucks, and I'd much prefer to just call it arm64 as >well. The main advantage of the aarch64 name is that it's the same >as the identifier in the elf triplet, [...] to identify the >architecture, [...] the rpm and dpkg architecture names, and [...] >the uname syscall.
Any hindrance changing the specs? There is not even arm64 hardware - or aarch64, for that matter - out there yet according to the initial post, so I doubt there is anything in userspace yet.
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