Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:50:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <20040921075039.GC1368@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040921.070524.21936977.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> 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>
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:05:24AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> 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)
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