From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 19:21:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5AB16A46C for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7B13C45B for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lB4JLmTj053794; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lB4JLmdd053793; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:21:48 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kip Macy Message-ID: <20071204192148.GA53565@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, Kip Macy , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <474983F1.3030700@pbxpress.com> <20071126180500.GB79600@dragon.NUXI.org> <474B4864.6010109@steelerubber.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to debug an AMD kernel on Intel X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:21:56 -0000 On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:01:37PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > Interesting. Thanks for the data point. > > The fact that amd64.org appears to be a cname for x86-64.org and all > the links on amd64.org point to x86-64.org pretty much sums up my > point of view. It doesn't really matter that much at the end of the > day. Way back in the day - when AMD started to with with ISV's pre-launch (April 21, 2003) it needed a name for this beast. AMD marketing was asked to name it - but they can never be bothered to do so until the month or two before launch. So the ISV Alliance Manger working with the open source communities of Linux and GNU tools, made up the name "x86-64". This is why this name came to be that was unsuitable as a name for development tools. He also registered the domain name x86-64 and had the x86-64 mailing lists created. About two months before launch AMD marketing took a hint from Microsoft (who were calling it AMD64 in their own source code) and blessed that as the official name. Then of course that name was registered in all the important TLD's and then CNAME'ed to the existing resources. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)