From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 15:12:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FC337B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-138.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392BC43FDF for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h55MCTp7006015; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:12:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EDFC04D.4080203@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:12:29 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan References: <20030605180040.A562@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030605180040.A562@online.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:12:31 -0000 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: >>Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >>>Why do all the BSDs continue to refer to the 32 bit Intel architecture >>>as i386 even when they typically won't even install on an i386 any >>>more? Why not call it x86, or ia32, if not in the kernel config then >>>at least in the release notes and documentation, as everyone else has >>>been doing for years? >> >>If it's that important to you, you're welcome to find all the places in >>the source and doc that it's used, correct them and submit patches. > > Are you a committer, in particular a committer responsible for this? > In other words, can your response be taken in any way as "official"? No. > I wouldn't mind submitting patches to the doc project, if someone in > charge of this asks. But obviously I can't submit patches for > something like the release notes and publicity material of FreeBSD 5.1 > (which is what I'm really talking about). I misunderstood. I read your original post to be referring to the docs and code and things like the kernel config file. Why it's still used in publicity material, I don't know. And to your unwritten complaint. Yes, that last answer was snippy. I apologize. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com