On 16/04/2020 19:27, Wookey wrote:
Apologies for the confusion. I was rather hoping more projects would use the obvious (and IMHO more user-friendly) arm64 name, rather than following the corporate steer, and in the early days it was hard to tell how this would go. But most have plumped for aarch64, so users are exposed to both names.
I think Debian made the right decision in using "arm64", IMO the clarity for end-users (who aren't likely to have a clue what "aarch" is but will probablly have heard of arm) outweighs the inconsistency between Debian and projects that decided to do what arm corporate wanted. Interestingly andriod seems to use arm64 for the "abi"* and aarch64 for the "instruction set" * I am not an andriod expert, but an andiod "abi" seems to be roughly equivilent to a Debian architecture.