cvs commit: www/en index.xsl

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 21 00:46:59 PDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:03:59PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:18 -0400
> 
> This was already fought over several weeks ago, and we decided that since
> NetBSD, OpenBSD, and a number of Linux's use 'amd64' in their
> documentation that we would also.  I _thought_ that we also agreed to
> mention 'EM64T' and 'IA32e' in the same context to clarify what we support
> since there have been a number of questions about this from end users.

It was not my understanding that everywhere "AMD64" was mentioned, we
would also mention "EM64T".  Our FreeBSD/AMD64 release notes and HARDWARE
docs, and http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html is the place to
document that Intel calls it "EM64T" or "IA32e".

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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