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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port
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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