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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:19:18 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: standized name: ppc or powerpc?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000620225148.2206P-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200006202026.e5KKQpX05096@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Luoqi Chen wrote:

> I want to raise a practical issue, what do we use for the standized name of
> powerpc architure? For purposes like, creating subdirectories, setting the
> MACHINE_ARCH/TARGET_ARCH variables. My personal preference `powerpc', which
> is used by gcc and friends, but it doesn't really matter which one we use
> as long as it's consistent in all places.
> 

Seconded. Net/Open also iirc use powerpc, with the different platforms
named ppc-something.

We already kinda-sorta have 98 under i386 - i guess that if we sometime
have need for other ppc "platforms" these would be similar, right?

> -lq
> 



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