On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:17 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > This is not an issue of just marketing, all documentation referred to by > the other os/dists (besides Fedora) call its amd64. The only os/dists > that call it x86_64 are ones running a particular version of rpm as you > have clearly stated before. Even the LSB calls it amd64 everywhere and > only requires that compliant dists be able to install x86_64 lsb rpms. > Also, as you have already made clear Debian can't realistically use > x86_64 and since no one else uses x86-64 the clear winner here is amd64. > As discussed, if x86_64 is not acceptable then I feel x86-64 is close enough. If we're going to change it entirely we may as well use the "fred" name that #debian-devel have all agreed on :o) > 1. GNU refers to both x86_64-*-* and amd64-*-* > Where? The *only* amd64 reference in config.guess is for OpenBSD. config.sub explicitly changes "amd64" to "x86_64" descent scott% grep -i -A1 amd64 /usr/share/misc/config.* /usr/share/misc/config.guess: amd64:OpenBSD:*:*) /usr/share/misc/config.guess- echo x86_64-unknown-openbsd${UNAME_RELEASE} -- /usr/share/misc/config.sub: amd64) /usr/share/misc/config.sub- basic_machine=x86_64-pc -- /usr/share/misc/config.sub: amd64-*) /usr/share/misc/config.sub- basic_machine=x86_64-`echo $basic_machine | sed 's/^[^-]*-//'` > "I believe that naming the architecture "amd64" when the Kernel and > Toolchain they're using calls it "x86_64" is even more confusing! > *Especially* for people using Intel chips." > > As mentioned above the toolchain uses both naming, x86_64-*-* and > amd64-*-*. > No it doesn't, not on Linux. > The "kernel" being only the Linux kernel using x86_64 and the > other kernels, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD all using amd64. So that's 3:1 > in favor of using amd64 for the name. Unless we are going to have > different names for the arch for the different debian ports? > We have that situation already. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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