Am 16.08.2015 um 10:55 schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 16.08.2015 um 10:47 schrieb Roberto Ragusa:On 08/14/2015 02:38 PM, Wei-Lun Chao wrote:Hi, Is there already any discussion about: rename arch name "noarch" to "all" rename arch name "x86_64" to "amd64" rename package name "kernel-PAE" to "kernel" and even rename package name "kernel" to "linux"IMHO kernel-PAE -> kernel is reasonable, if the nonPAE is suppressedyesx86_64 -> amd64 is a good idea, as the architecture was created by AMD; dropping an underscore is nice toono the architecture was created by Intel AMD added the 64bit capabilities in a compatible way other than Intel itself tried with Itanium which was not able to run i686 instructions and later Intel was forced to license the AMD extensions so no, it is a terrible idea rename x86_64 to AMD64 because it suggests "that's not for Intel CPUs" and it's proven that people think that when read only "AMD"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#AMD64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Intel_64 so we support only AMD64? really? written on x64_64 Fedora on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GH
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