"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>said:
> Alan Cox wrote:
[...]
> > > We should never have used anything but "i386" as the utsname... sigh.
> > Its questionable if we should include the 'i'
> True enough, personally I prefer "x86".
ia32 is the official name. OTOH, i[3-6]86 _are_ different beasts...
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Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>said:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > We should never have used anything but "i386" as the utsname... sigh.
>
> > > Its questionable if we should include the 'i'
>
> > True enough, personally I prefer "x86".
>
> ia32 is the official name. OTOH, i[3-6]86 _are_ different beasts...
>
IA32 is a retcon, and is used only by Intel anyway. There are
differences between the i686 lines that are significantly bigger than
between the i486 and i586, and that doesn't even begin to count non-Intel
chips.
However, changing it to "i386" consistently would still work with
existing software. Using "x86" or "ia32" or "ix86pc" (what Solaris calls
it) would break stuff.
-hpa
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> > True enough, personally I prefer "x86".
>
> ia32 is the official name. OTOH, i[3-6]86 _are_ different beasts...
ia32 is an intel trademark. Using it for non intel products is probably an
actionable matter ..
Alan Cox wrote:
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> > > True enough, personally I prefer "x86".
> >
> > ia32 is the official name. OTOH, i[3-6]86 _are_ different beasts...
>
> ia32 is an intel trademark. Using it for non intel products is probably an
> actionable matter ..
>
Yet another reason to ignore it.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
[snip]
> > ia32 is an intel trademark. Using it for non intel products is probably an
> > actionable matter ..
> >
>
> Yet another reason to ignore it.
Speaking of using it for non-Intel products, this is a line from
Documentation/Changes in Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre6:
Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using as86 to using gas for
Should we change that to x86 or something?
-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>
"Barry K. Nathan" wrote:
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> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Alan Cox wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > ia32 is an intel trademark. Using it for non intel products is probably an
> > > actionable matter ..
> > >
> >
> > Yet another reason to ignore it.
>
> Speaking of using it for non-Intel products, this is a line from
> Documentation/Changes in Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre6:
>
> Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using as86 to using gas for
>
> Should we change that to x86 or something?
>
Since Linux generally calls this i386 throughout, I would stick with
calling it i386.
-hpa
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