On 21.07.2020 20:04, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Premachandra Mallappa: > >> [AMD Public Use] >> >> Hi Floarian, >> >>> I'm including a proposal for the levels below. I use single letters for >>> them, but I expect that the concrete implementation of this proposal will >>> use >>> names like “x86-100”, “x86-101”, like in the glibc patch referenced above. >>> (But we can discuss other approaches.) >> >> Personally I am not a big fan of this, for 2 reasons >> 1. uses just x86 in name on x86_64 as well > > That's deliberate, so that we can use the same x86-* names for 32-bit > library selection (once we define matching micro-architecture levels > there).
While indeed I did understand it to be deliberate, in the light of 64-bit only ISA extensions (like AMX, and I suspect we're going to see more) I nevertheless think Premachandra has a point here. Jan
