Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:28:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port |
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On Sunday 2012-07-08 07:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> >>>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. > >There is, in gnu config (the autoconf config.sub/config.guess stuff), and >maybe some of the gnu toolchain? > >I did wonder why the awkward aarch64 identifier instead of something like >arm64 which has also the benefit of good marketing by carrying the ARM name >in the arch name, but since it was not my place to ask about it and ARM had >already submitted "aarch64" to gnu upstream...
Well maybe ARM just wants to render itself unimportant. Fine by me, but the shareholders might think differently ;-)
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