Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751289AbVIYMlL (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:41:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751284AbVIYMlL (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:41:11 -0400 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:64954 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751289AbVIYMlK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:41:10 -0400 Message-ID: <43369ACF.3000102@didntduck.org> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:40:47 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-5 (X11/20050818) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Andrew Morton , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32 References: <4335DD14.7090909@didntduck.org> <20050925100525.GA14741@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050925100525.GA14741@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 26 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:11:16PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > >>Add CONFIG_IA32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply >>to 32-bit systems. >> >>(X86 && !X86_64) becomes IA32 >>(X86 || X86_64) becomes X86 > > > Please call it X86_32 or I386, to match the terminology we use everywhere. > I386 would match the uname, and X86_32 would be the logical countepart > to X86_64. > I386 is already used elsewhere for cpu optimization. Intel has called all of its 32-bit cpus IA32 since they introduced IA64. I've never heard of any usage of X86_32. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/