From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 09:49:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C977E16A4CE; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B155243D1F; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1MHnLOJ091875; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i1MHnJIj091874; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:49:19 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Message-ID: <20040222174919.GF91129@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200402220057.36903.peter@wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402220057.36903.peter@wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-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 cc: amd64@freebsd.org cc: adridg@cs.kun.nl cc: Gerald Pfeifer cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 and lang/gcc3x on -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:49:26 -0000 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:57:36AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > However, Intel haven't chosen either of the two names.. > They've done their own one. "IA-32e" was mentioned several times at > the IDF this week. My guess is it would wreck havoc with Intel's FUD that AMD64 isn't really 64-bits if Intel also used "64" in the platform's name. Intel has having to walk a very fine line to keep from damaging other product lines...