Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

From: Chris Adams
Date: Tue Jul 10 2012 - 18:16:38 EST


Once upon a time, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> said:
>Changing the arch/ dir name is easy at this point. My preference is for
>consistency with the official name (that cannot be changed) and the gcc
>triplet.

What ARM Ltd. says is the "official" name isn't necessarily what the
rest of the world will call it. Linux uses "i386" for what Intel calls
"IA-32" (which virtually nobody else uses).
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