From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 21:53:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B2416A4E9 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:53:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC25643D2D for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:53:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12837 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2004 21:53:25 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Sep 2004 21:53:24 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8KLrEqb026257; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200409201934.i8KJYfcS036447@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040921.054126.07648742.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409201753.18974.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Hiroki Sato cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:53:26 -0000 On Monday 20 September 2004 05:18 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:41:26AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > "David E. O'Brien" wrote > > obrien> Log: > > obrien> Use consistent wording. > > .. > > > - x86 compatible, AMD64 and Intel EM64T, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 > > + x86 compatible, AMD64 compatible, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 > > .. > > > I would like to make it clear that FreeBSD supports EM64T > > by using the Intel's architecture name because the word > > AMD64 can confuse the users. Is that unacceptable? > > If I can list AMD Athlon, AMD K6, AMD K5, VIA, Cyrix, Transmeta, National > Semiconductor, IBM, etc... in the list rather than "x86 compatible". For > Alpha we would need to add Samsung, who also made some Alpha dirivitives. > For Sparc64 we would need to add Fujitsu. > Where does it stop? > > People owning Intel EM64T machines well know that it is a copy of the > AMD64 platform. x86 doesn't say Intel in the name, whereas amd64 does have AMD in its name. Maybe if we just called it 'x86-64 compatible' rather than 'amd64 compatible'? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org