On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:25:53PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > www.debian.org/ports says about ia64: > > "This is a port to Intel's 64-bit architecture." > > Without further any warning/information about that other 64bit architecture > intel, amd etc are producing: amd64. A *lot* of people try to use ia64 > installation media to install Debian on their Opteron's etc, and then mail > (for example) debian-cd that the cd is broken and doesn't boot. > > The paragraph in question could and IMHO should be more elaborate, like, > saying it's Intel *alpha* 64, aka Itanium, and mention it's a high-end > processor that's not available in consumer's computer shops at all, and > also mention there exists another 64-bit processer made by Intel and > others, that is *not* ia64, but rather 'amd64'. > > The fact that i386 is also called ia32 above, without any introduction to > what ia32 means, isn't helping at all of course. If it doesn't serve > anything, I strongly suggest to drop the name of 'ia-32', I've never > heard of it before, while eh, I've been an i386 users for quite some time. > Mentioning 'Pentium', 'Sempron' etc would seem more useful to me, as that's > much more likely to be known to people than ia32 and even i386. Generally, > having a bit of availability info in the summary so that people can more > easily find which one's they need to look at. The m68k entry is a good > example of this. > > I've X-Debbugs-Cc'd debian-ia64, who can maybe elaborate on this, or > correct me where I've been wrong (I know very little about ia64 myself). Would you please prepare a patch? -- Matt
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