On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:25:31PM +0400, 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.
Renaming a port because of something like this isn't really an option - a better answer, imo, would be to modify the ia64 cds to display a splash screen on x86 hardware that explains the issue. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
