Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2012 01:42:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port |
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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?)
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