-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:10:18 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> escribió: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:10:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > > > On Saturday 07 July 2012, Olof Johansson wrote: > > > > > ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture > > > > > > > > With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name > > > > awkward. How about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? > > > > It's considerably more descriptive in the context of the > > > > kernel. For reference, we didn't name ppc64, nor powerpc, > > > > after what the IBM/power.org marketing people were currently > > > > calling the architecture at the time either. > > > > > > I agree the name sucks, [...] > > > > So why not change it now, when it only bothers a few dozen > > people and it is only present in 36 patches? Why go full steam > > ahead to annoy thousands of people with it and why spread the > > naming madness to thousands of commits? > > Changing the arch/ dir name is easy at this point. My preference is > for consistency with the official name (that cannot be changed) and > the gcc triplet. I also don't think it annoys thousands of people, > most don't really care. The few reactions I've seen is pretty much > because people were expecting arm64 and it came as something else. > > But I'll make a decision on this before the next version of the > series. > > > > [...] This also includes the rpm and dpkg architecture names, > > > and the string returned by the uname syscall. If everything > > > else is aarch64, we should use that in the kernel directory > > > too, but if everyone calls it arm64 anyway, we should probably > > > use that name for as many things as possible. > > > > Yeah. > > What are Red Hat's plans for the AArh64 rpm architecture name?
the rpm arch will be the output of uname -m As i've said previously I personally prefer arm64 I think it will be better for users but they will learn if it ends up being aarch64. if uname -m is arm64 we will have foo-1.1-1.arm64.rpm if uname -m ends up as aarch64 we will have foo-1.1-1.aarch64.rpm Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/8XewACgkQkSxm47BaWfe/xwCgqq9ctMj9VG6zruJtmLDzrRZM Ew8AoJRACBzQCLHLkoSveQ+2XoIrw1rY =e8W0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
