From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 07:50:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDDA16A4CE; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40D643D55; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:50:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8L7od5A001815; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8L7odTf001814; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:50:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Hiroki Sato Message-ID: <20040921075039.GC1368@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200409201934.i8KJYfcS036447@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040921.054126.07648742.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org> <20040921.070524.21936977.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040921.070524.21936977.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> 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: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:50:41 -0000 On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:05:24AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > "David O'Brien" wrote > in <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org>: > > obrien> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:41:26AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > obrien> > I would like to make it clear that FreeBSD supports EM64T > obrien> > by using the Intel's architecture name because the word > obrien> > AMD64 can confuse the users. Is that unacceptable? > obrien> > obrien> If I can list AMD Athlon, AMD K6, AMD K5, VIA, Cyrix, Transmeta, National > obrien> Semiconductor, IBM, etc... in the list rather than "x86 compatible". For > obrien> Alpha we would need to add Samsung, who also made some Alpha dirivitives. > obrien> For Sparc64 we would need to add Fujitsu. > > These you mentioned are not architecture name. And the terms > AMD64 and EM64T have a bit complicated history, so to mention > the both should help the users. I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you're saying. > obrien> People owning Intel EM64T machines well know that it is a copy of the > obrien> AMD64 platform. > > I think it should be explicitly stated as long as there > are questions like the following: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?411B8E17.5020409 > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040807004555.14650.qmail > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200408121227.51268.jkim I could show you just as many (and more) puzzle users wondering if we supported Athlon, or just Intel's ia32/i386 platform. There will always be confusion and ignorance. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)