From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751668Ab2GSOWb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:31 -0400 Received: from smtp13.ono.com ([62.42.230.16]:58441 "EHLO resmaa13.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751145Ab2GSOW2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:28 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 325 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:28 EDT Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:16:55 +0200 From: Guillem Jover To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Olof Johansson , Catalin Marinas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port Message-ID: <20120719141655.GA13262@gaara.hadrons.org> References: <1341608777-12982-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201207071927.13135.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201207071927.13135.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 19:27:12 +0000, 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? 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. > > 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, and it makes sense to > keep the same name for all places where we need to identify the > architecture. This also includes the rpm and dpkg architecture names, > and the string returned by the uname syscall. If everything else > is aarch64, we should use that in the kernel directory too, but > if everyone calls it arm64 anyway, we should probably use that name > for as many things as possible. FWIW the dpkg architecture name will be arm64: And I'd be happy to change the GNU triplet match in dpkg, if someone considered trying to get it renamed to something less unfortunate. thanks, guillem