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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
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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.

IMHO, changing the name "i386" to something else is a severe violation
of POLA.  Who wants to answer -questions after 5.0-RELEASE appears with
no /usr/src/sys/i386?

In any case, I see no reason why we should totally drop 80386 support
(though I agree it should be dropped from the GENERIC kernel).  In which
case, there's no reason not to stick with the term `i386'.

Peter


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