Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:59:57 +0100 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:47:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's > > "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type. > > "x64" perhaps? > > x86-64 it is. Maybe you can remap one of your function keys to send the > sequence ;) > > This whole "ia32" crap has always been ridiculous - nobody has _ever_ > called an x86 anything but x86, and Intel is just making it worse by > adding random illogical letters to the end. > > In contrast, x86-64 tells you _exactly_ what it's all about, and is what > the kernel has always called the architecture anyway.
hmm, so the current x86_64 will be changed to x86-64 or will there be x86_64 and x86-64?
probably I missed something important, but AMD64 seems to be labeled x86_64 in 2.4 and 2.6
# ls linux-2.4.25/arch/ alpha/ cris/ ia64/ mips/ parisc/ ppc64/ s390x/ sh64/ sparc64/ arm/ i386/ m68k/ mips64/ ppc/ s390/ sh/ sparc/ x86_64/
# ls linux-2.6.3/arch/ alpha/ cris/ ia64/ mips/ ppc64/ sparc/ v850/ arm/ h8300/ m68k/ parisc/ s390/ sparc64/ x86_64/ arm26/ i386/ m68knommu/ ppc/ sh/ um/
TIA, Herbert
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