| Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:31:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port |
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On Sunday 2012-07-08 09:54, Jon Masters wrote: > >FWIW I actually really like the aarch64 name (but you know that already >:) ). I think it clearly spells out that this is not just a 64-bit >extension to the existing 32-bit ARM Architecture, it is a new (inspired >by ARM) architecture.
IA64 also has a "arch" inside, and look where it took them. (The contemporary platform winner came to be x86_64 instead of what Intel had hoped back then.)
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