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Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture



On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 01:57 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:

> On 05-Mar-17 00:10, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > No, I would just prefer consistency.  You've deliberately chosen an
> > architecture name that's jarringly different from your 32-bit variant;
> > that's a rather bold thing to do, and I think you need to justify that.
> 
> The decision to use the name 'ppc64' is based on the LSB and it is 
> consistent with the decision of all other distributions I know of.
> 
But it isn't consistent with Debian's previous decision on the PowerPC
port.  In particular, the LSB mandates "ppc32" for what we call
"powerpc".

Scott
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