From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 9:55:45 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865D537B400; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0EHtOY27541; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:55:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Will Andrews , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114095524.B35126@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <28586.979469127@critter> <200101141115.f0EBFBQ89810@mobile.wemm.org> <20010114130017.A1612@student.uu.se> <20010114040933.A35126@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010114133018.A1918@student.uu.se> <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010114123824.D1379@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Just remember to change all the places that refer to 'i386' as the generic > > name for the architecture if the 386 itself is dropped. :-) > > I think 'ia32' is a good name. :-) > David? :-) I prefer "x86" as that is what the arch was known as until just recently. Another reason is to have a little more difference between this an "ia64" just to make reduce mis-reading and to help command-line completion. :-) Not to mention the code will be shared for the x86-64, and making a non-Intel designed called "Intel Architecture" is just yucky. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message