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

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jul 2012 01:42:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port


On Saturday 2012-07-07 05:53, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
>> ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture
>
>With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How
>about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? It's considerably more
>descriptive in the context of the kernel.  For reference, we didn't
>name ppc64, nor powerpc, after what the IBM/power.org marketing people
>were currently calling the architecture at the time either.

But then again, we went with the clumsy "x86_64" instead of the
well-credited "amd64". :)

(What was the name IBM used to call their hardware at that time?)
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