On Saturday 2012-07-07 05:53, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture > >With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How >about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? It's considerably more >descriptive in the context of the kernel. For reference, we didn't >name ppc64, nor powerpc, after what the IBM/power.org marketing people >were currently calling the architecture at the time either.
But then again, we went with the clumsy "x86_64" instead of the well-credited "amd64". :) (What was the name IBM used to call their hardware at that time?) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
