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Re: Switching ppc64el port name to ppc64le



On 08/28/2014 03:57 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
 > [...] In all the relevant tool chain tools it is
called ppc64le, and this is what other distributions (fedora / opensuse)
have adopted for this port.

A related funny piece for Friday :) from linuxppc-dev [1]:
  'At least we're consistent in our inconsistency.'


On 09/05/2014 09:14 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:13 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>>> The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le.  This
>>>
>>> Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?
>>
>> ppc64el.  Commit message is wrong.  Fixed below.
>
> Yay!  Just like every other architecture, we continue to have the deb
> based distros call it one thing, and the RPM based distros call it
> another.  At least we're consistent in our inconsistency.

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-September/120650.html


Cheers,

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center


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