Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/27/2012 10:07 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Tony Baldwin: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > >>> I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used > >>> google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. > >> > >> Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit > >> processor, or an AMD64? > > > > > > > > No, it isn't. And I am sure this exact misconception has already been > > resolved in this very thread. > > Yes, it was, very early, by yours truly. > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename > the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to something like > "AMDINTL64". > > The conventions Debian uses are based on the microarchitecture names, > which back in the day worked fine and were self explanatory: i386, > IA64, 680x0, MIPS, ALPHA, SPARC, PPC, etc. > > But when AMD released the x86-64 architecture in 2002, and Intel copied > it, creating two 64 bit chip families from Intel, the old naming > convention fell apart, as many laypeople can't make sense of it.
AMDINTL64 seems to long for me. I think x86-64 would make some sense. SUSE for examples uses it. Or even pc32 and pc64, since that is the classical PC platform. But then why other workstations on Alpha, SPARC base should not be called PCs as well. So maybe: x86-64 and x86-32. ;) Similar thing with PowerPC. powerpc-32, powerpc-64? -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209281330.45524.mar...@lichtvoll.de
