Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:55:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114095524.B35126@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500 References: <28586.979469127@critter> <200101141115.f0EBFBQ89810@mobile.wemm.org> <20010114130017.A1612@student.uu.se> <20010114040933.A35126@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010114133018.A1918@student.uu.se> <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> > Just remember to change all the places that refer to 'i386' as the generic
> > name for the architecture if the 386 itself is dropped. :-)
>
> I think 'ia32' is a good name. :-)
> David? :-)
I prefer "x86" as that is what the arch was known as until just
recently. Another reason is to have a little more difference between
this an "ia64" just to make reduce mis-reading and to help command-line
completion. :-) Not to mention the code will be shared for the x86-64,
and making a non-Intel designed called "Intel Architecture" is just yucky.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion.
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