* Jon Masters (j...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 07/07/2012 03:27 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Saturday 07 July 2012, 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. > > > > I agree the name sucks, and I'd much prefer to just call it arm64 > > as well. The main advantage of the aarch64 name is that it's the > > same as the identifier in the elf triplet, and it makes sense to > > keep the same name for all places where we need to identify the > > architecture. This also includes the rpm and dpkg architecture names, > > and the string returned by the uname syscall. If everything else > > is aarch64, we should use that in the kernel directory too, but > > if everyone calls it arm64 anyway, we should probably use that name > > for as many things as possible. > > FWIW I actually really like the aarch64 name (but you know that already > :) ). I think it clearly spells out that this is not just a 64-bit > extension to the existing 32-bit ARM Architecture, it is a new (inspired > by ARM) architecture. Implementations will also run in AArch32 state > (A32 and T32), but it's not like x86->x86_64.
It's one advantage is that it won't trigger the infinite number of broken scripts out there that do something on arm* Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ -- 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/
