Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:10:59AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:31 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > Moreover, I seriously doubt that this is an honest argument. I think you
> > just want to decide the architecture name yourself.
> >
> 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.
Notice that ppc64 is what is widely known in the outside world on anyone
working with 64bit powerpc, that both the kernel and the toolchain use it,
that all the documentation referent to it uses ppc64 and that the other
distributions doin 64bit powerpc (gento, suze and redhat) use it too, as well
as all cross toolchain out there.
Will we want to do something different as pure dogma, despite the cost
involved ?
> Obviously I have no power to overrule you on your choice of architecture
> name, but I'd like to try and appeal to some common sense in you, if
> there is any.
Hehe.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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