Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:47:01AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:12:41AM +0100, Wookey wrote: >> tools POV). The one _good_ reason for using the aarch64 name is avoiding >> accidental matches with arm* in various bits of configery so leaving >> that alone probably makes s

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:12:41AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > tools POV). The one _good_ reason for using the aarch64 name is avoiding > accidental matches with arm* in various bits of configery so leaving > that alone probably makes sense despite the silly name. How much of the arm* silliness is the

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Wookey wrote: > Arm64 everywhere would have been neater but unless someone is > volunteering for a massive argument and changing upstream gcc and No way. it is difficult to do better at this kind of thing than Linus, and he has already said his piece :-p It won't be aarch64

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2012-07-20 16:55 -0300]: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Naming > > == > > > > Naming issues: ARM are calling the new 64-bit architecture > > AArch64. Other people don't like that and various other names have > > been proposed for use elsewhere

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Naming > == > > Naming issues: ARM are calling the new 64-bit architecture > AArch64. Other people don't like that and various other names have > been proposed for use elsewhere. Debian/Ubuntu developers have already > picked the name "arm64" in dpk

AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the AArch64 port planning BoF [1] last week (10th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached