From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 02:05:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120708050531.GA17672@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1207080142570.26355@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
On Sun, 08 Jul 2012, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2012-07-07 21:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >On Saturday 07 July 2012, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> > ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture
> >>
> >> With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How
> >> about just naming the arch port arm64 instead?
> >
> >I agree the name sucks, and I'd much prefer to just call it arm64 as
> >well. The main advantage of the aarch64 name is that it's the same
> >as the identifier in the elf triplet, [...] to identify the
> >architecture, [...] the rpm and dpkg architecture names, and [...]
> >the uname syscall.
>
> Any hindrance changing the specs? There is not even arm64 hardware - or
> aarch64, for that matter - out there yet according to the initial post,
> so I doubt there is anything in userspace yet.
There is, in gnu config (the autoconf config.sub/config.guess stuff), and
maybe some of the gnu toolchain?
I did wonder why the awkward aarch64 identifier instead of something like
arm64 which has also the benefit of good marketing by carrying the ARM name
in the arch name, but since it was not my place to ask about it and ARM had
already submitted "aarch64" to gnu upstream...
If ARM wants to change to a much better "arm64", I suggest ARM should move
*FAST* to get it changed in GNU config and the toolchain. And tell the
downstream distro maintainers about it... yesterday.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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Thread overview: 182+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-06 21:05 [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 01/36] atomic64_test: Simplify the #ifdef for atomic64_dec_if_positive() test Catalin Marinas
2012-07-18 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-18 9:06 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 02/36] ipc: Add COMPAT_SHMLBA support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-18 5:53 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-18 9:03 ` Will Deacon
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 03/36] ipc: allow compat IPC version field parsing if !ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 04/36] ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 05/36] fs: Build sys_stat64() and friends if __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_STAT64 Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 06/36] fdt: Add generic dt_memblock_reserve() function Catalin Marinas
2012-07-07 21:18 ` Rob Herring
2012-07-08 9:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 07/36] AArch64: Assembly macros and definitions Catalin Marinas
2012-07-07 5:57 ` Greg KH
2012-07-08 9:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-20 14:22 ` [07/36] " Christopher Covington
2012-07-24 16:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 08/36] AArch64: Kernel booting and initialisation Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:32 ` Stephen Warren
2012-07-08 9:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-23 17:48 ` Stephen Warren
2012-07-23 17:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-18 6:57 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-18 9:07 ` Will Deacon
2012-07-20 7:11 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-19 17:31 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-20 7:10 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-20 8:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-20 10:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-20 12:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-20 13:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-20 13:47 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-20 13:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-20 13:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-20 14:53 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-23 20:52 ` [08/36] " Christopher Covington
2012-07-24 16:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-24 18:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-24 23:20 ` Frank Rowand
2012-07-25 8:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-24 19:42 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-25 8:47 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-25 13:39 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 09/36] AArch64: Exception handling Catalin Marinas
2012-08-09 17:05 ` [09/36] " Christopher Covington
2012-08-09 17:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-08-09 19:19 ` Christopher Covington
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 10/36] AArch64: MMU definitions Catalin Marinas
2012-10-02 0:43 ` Jon Masters
2012-10-02 15:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 11/36] AArch64: MMU initialisation Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 12/36] AArch64: MMU fault handling and page table management Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 13/36] AArch64: Process management Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 14/36] AArch64: CPU support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 15/36] AArch64: Cache maintenance routines Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 16/36] AArch64: TLB maintenance functionality Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 17/36] AArch64: IRQ handling Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:05 ` [PATCH 18/36] AArch64: Atomic operations Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 19/36] AArch64: Device specific operations Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 20/36] AArch64: DMA mapping API Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 21/36] AArch64: SMP support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 22/36] AArch64: ELF definitions Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 23/36] AArch64: System calls handling Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 24/36] AArch64: VDSO support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 25/36] AArch64: Signal handling support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 26/36] AArch64: User access library functions Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 27/36] AArch64: 32-bit (compat) applications support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 28/36] AArch64: Floating point and SIMD Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 29/36] AArch64: Debugging support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 30/36] AArch64: Performance counters support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 31/36] AArch64: Miscellaneous library functions Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 32/36] AArch64: Loadable modules Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 33/36] AArch64: Generic timers support Catalin Marinas
2012-07-12 0:18 ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-12 10:09 ` Marc Zyngier
2012-07-12 10:56 ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-12 16:57 ` John Stultz
2012-07-12 17:31 ` Marc Zyngier
2012-07-12 17:39 ` John Stultz
2012-07-13 12:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-13 16:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-13 16:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-13 18:30 ` John Stultz
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 34/36] AArch64: Miscellaneous header files Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 35/36] AArch64: Build infrastructure Catalin Marinas
2012-07-06 21:06 ` [PATCH 36/36] AArch64: MAINTAINERS update Catalin Marinas
2012-08-10 16:24 ` [36/36] " Christopher Covington
2012-07-06 22:58 ` [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port Alan Cox
2012-07-07 21:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-07 23:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-07 23:29 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-09 11:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-09 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-09 15:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-09 15:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-09 16:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-09 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-07 3:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-09 12:32 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-09 13:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-09 13:56 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-09 14:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-09 15:46 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-07 3:53 ` Olof Johansson
2012-07-07 19:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-07 23:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-08 5:05 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2012-07-08 20:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-08 7:54 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-08 11:17 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2012-07-08 18:13 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-08 18:31 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-08 22:24 ` Dennis Gilmore
2012-07-09 2:01 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-09 8:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-09 13:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-08 20:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-08 23:32 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-10 7:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-10 10:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-10 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-10 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-10 20:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-10 21:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-10 21:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-11 8:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-11 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-10 21:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-11 8:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-11 5:26 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-11 10:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-12 2:08 ` Rusty Russell
2012-07-10 16:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-10 16:52 ` Dennis Gilmore
2012-07-10 17:14 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-10 18:01 ` Jan Ceuleers
2012-07-10 18:05 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-07-10 20:16 ` Alexander Holler
2012-07-14 22:16 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-10 22:08 ` Chris Adams
2012-07-14 9:30 ` Pavel Machek
2012-07-15 12:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-15 19:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-15 21:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-16 12:16 ` Pavel Machek
2012-07-17 7:05 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-17 8:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-17 9:50 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-18 2:36 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-17 10:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-16 9:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-17 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-17 8:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-16 8:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-17 7:09 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-17 8:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-15 23:21 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-07-15 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-17 22:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-17 22:35 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-18 2:33 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-18 15:27 ` Dennis Gilmore
2012-07-18 17:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-18 17:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-07-18 19:35 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-18 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-19 14:16 ` Guillem Jover
2012-07-07 23:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-08 10:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-09 12:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-07 9:30 ` Mikael Pettersson
2012-07-07 19:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-10 10:12 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-14 9:35 ` Pavel Machek
2012-07-15 11:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-16 16:19 ` Pavel Machek
2012-07-16 19:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-16 19:47 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-07-18 5:35 ` Jon Masters
2012-07-18 9:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-07-26 11:59 ` Catalin Marinas
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