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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:08:23 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port
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Once upon a time, Catalin Marinas  <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 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).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.