From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5Dtt-0005Q2-2f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:37:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5Dtp-0004pO-Oz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:37:57 -0500 Received: from mail-it0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::244]:35314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5Dtp-0004of-G9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:37:53 -0500 Received: by mail-it0-x244.google.com with SMTP id b123so11333997itb.2 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:37:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2192b3f9-6fe5-ce06-eb47-4f0ea1bbb0ab@redhat.com> References: <20161111130858.GG8930@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <90C530D3-3577-49D9-9AC5-17E9AF7E35DB@gmail.com> <2192b3f9-6fe5-ce06-eb47-4f0ea1bbb0ab@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: G 3 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:37:47 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM documentation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Snow Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Peter Maydell , qemu-devel qemu-devel On Nov 11, 2016, at 10:32 AM, John Snow wrote: > > > On 11/11/2016 08:27 AM, G 3 wrote: >> >> I wonder who named the 64-bit version of ARM aarch64. I would think >> something like qemu-system-arm64 would be more intuitive. > > I don't follow ARM (...Sorry Jon Masters...) but from a cursory > glance at the Wikipedia, it looks like that's the name of the > instruction set that ARM themselves gave it: https:// > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#64.2F32-bit_architecture > > So it makes sense to anybody who works in that space, and > temporarily confuses the willies out of us poor x86 saps. > > --js I get it now. Thanks.