In fact IPF stands for Itanium Processor Family and I believe this is the official name. As you pointed out, it is not used widely, though. Probably I'd agree that "itanium" is a better and more recognizeable name.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Brian Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul A. Anokhin wrote: >> It seems like a half of this maillist traffic is generated by people >> mistakingly trying to use ia64 instead of x86-64 version. And I have >> to admit that compared to the rest of the internet this is pretty good >> error ratio :) >> >> Probably the ia64 port should be named something like "ipf" or >> "itanium" to avoid confusion. After all, ia64 is no longer the >> official name for the architecture AFAIK, and I think the change was >> caused by the same reason. >> > There is explicit text about this on http://debian.org/ports/ . That > said, itanium is a good name for the architecture that matches common > usage. I think these days the intel approved phrase is "intel itanium > architecture". I'm not sure what IPF is -- perhaps a reference to > itanium processor architecture (a typo for IPA?) -- but in any event > it's no longer in current usage, even by intel. If a move is in order, I > vote for using "itanium". > > Cheers... > > > -- > Brian Szymanski > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Павел Анохин
