From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 15 14:18: 4 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D8B37B404; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0FMFi194831; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010114095524.B35126@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:17:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Will Andrews Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Jan-01 David O'Brien wrote: > 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. IA32 is what the actual processor manuals from Intel call it. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message