Re: Opteron support in dpkg
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:55:39PM -0700, mike wrote:
| yagreed. don't athlon 64's run "amd64" style technology also? why is this
| even up for debate. "opteron" shouldn't even be an option imho.
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| On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Stephen Frost wrote:
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| > * John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote:
| > > I'm not sure it makes sense. I have an Athlon64. Why would I assume
| > > that something named "opteron" would work for me? To me, that seems
| > > similar to naming something "pentium-ii".
| >
| > I agree, not a very good move. I'd rather go with amd64 than opteron.
How about "Hammer", which is the original codename of the architecture,
and is also a bit in the vein of Debian Nienna (since somebody mentioned
NetBSD, where we're going with a totally different name than upstream).
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