RE: Renaming this list into debian-amd64

[marc.miller@amd.com]

Or rather, just be consistent with other list names.  I can't find any x86-specific Debian mailing list so it's hard to make the comparison there.  Just be aware that x86_64 will be around for a while at the kernel, compiler, and source code level.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Marc 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:02 AM
To: joey@infodrom.org; martin@jungowski.de
Cc: debian-x86-64@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Renaming this list into debian-amd64


gcc will recognize amd64 as an alias to x86_64, but as far as the kernel and compilers are concerned, x86_64 will still be the architecture name.  Again, if gcc recognizes x86 as a platform name, it should be called debian-amd64.  If it instead recognizes i686 as the platform name, it should be debian-x86_64.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Schulze [mailto:joey@infodrom.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:21 AM
To: Martin Jungowski
Cc: debian-x86-64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Renaming this list into debian-amd64


Martin Jungowski wrote:
> I'd say it whould remain x86-64 since that is more technical. AMD64
> sounds like a marketing thing to me, after all they don't call their
> Athlon XP and Duron AMD32

Amd said amd64 is the official architecture name, this is most
probably also the name gcc, Linux and dpkg will recognise.

Regards,

	Joey

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