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

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jul 2012 01:45:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port


On Saturday 2012-07-07 21:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>On Saturday 07 July 2012, 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?
>
>I agree the name sucks, and I'd much prefer to just call it arm64 as
>well. The main advantage of the aarch64 name is that it's the same
>as the identifier in the elf triplet, [...] to identify the
>architecture, [...] the rpm and dpkg architecture names, and [...]
>the uname syscall.

Any hindrance changing the specs? There is not even arm64 hardware - or
aarch64, for that matter - out there yet according to the initial post,
so I doubt there is anything in userspace yet.
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