cvs commit: www/en index.xsl
David O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 21 00:50:41 PDT 2004
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:05:24AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> in <20040920211839.GA15066 at hub.freebsd.org>:
>
> obrien> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:41:26AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> obrien> > I would like to make it clear that FreeBSD supports EM64T
> obrien> > by using the Intel's architecture name because the word
> obrien> > AMD64 can confuse the users. Is that unacceptable?
> obrien>
> obrien> If I can list AMD Athlon, AMD K6, AMD K5, VIA, Cyrix, Transmeta, National
> obrien> Semiconductor, IBM, etc... in the list rather than "x86 compatible". For
> obrien> Alpha we would need to add Samsung, who also made some Alpha dirivitives.
> obrien> For Sparc64 we would need to add Fujitsu.
>
> These you mentioned are not architecture name. And the terms
> AMD64 and EM64T have a bit complicated history, so to mention
> the both should help the users.
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you're saying.
> obrien> People owning Intel EM64T machines well know that it is a copy of the
> obrien> AMD64 platform.
>
> I think it should be explicitly stated as long as there
> are questions like the following:
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?411B8E17.5020409
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040807004555.14650.qmail
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200408121227.51268.jkim
I could show you just as many (and more) puzzle users wondering if we
supported Athlon, or just Intel's ia32/i386 platform. There will always
be confusion and ignorance.
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-- David (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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