Hi!, On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:00:04PM +0100, наб wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 09:43:21PM +0100, наб wrote: > > > +a per-architecture value is used for the stack size: > > > +2 MB on most architectures; 4 MB on POWER and Sparc-64. > > Why capitalize POWER and omit PC? Other than that, LGTM. > This is what the official nomenclature seems to be: > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el says > > News > > > > The IBM POWER platform, code name ppc64el, is an official architecture since > > DebianJessie. > > > > Required Hardware > > > > Debian/ppc64el requires, at minimum, a POWER8 processor machine. Although > > Debian was initially bootstrapped on a POWER7 set of servers, this class of > > server is not supported anymore, and you are not able to run Debian/ppc64el > > on a POWER 7 processor without hitting an illegal instruction fault. > > > > There are, at this moment, a plenty of POWER8 machines being sold by > > different companies. > > All the branding I've ever seen in the modern world calls it POWER, > and AIUI the PowerPC branding was abandoned like 15 years ago. > > The debian wiki page even says > > The ppc64el port is not aimed for old Powerpc Macintosh machines, > > and, at the moment, there is no way to install it on this class of > > machines. > but wikipedia tells me the last product from this line came out in 2006, > which is pushing two decades by now. Even then, apparently > "PowerPC is largely based on the earlier IBM POWER architecture" > so it's the same thing. > > Maybe when Apple had a choke-hold on the millennial mind a calling it > "PowerPC" could've made sense, but through a modern lens PowerPC, > to the extent it exists at all, is just a derivative of POWER I think > > Best, Hmmm, thanks! Could you include this (or an excerpt if you prefer) in the commit message, since we're changing the nomenclature? Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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