On Saturday 2012-07-07 05:53, 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? It's considerably more
>descriptive in the context of the kernel.  For reference, we didn't
>name ppc64, nor powerpc, after what the IBM/power.org marketing people
>were currently calling the architecture at the time either.

But then again, we went with the clumsy "x86_64" instead of the
well-credited "amd64". :)

(What was the name IBM used to call their hardware at that time?)