From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 23:49:17 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] cpuinfo family changed in 2.4.7 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:03:06 +0100 (MET), Dan Pop said: Dan> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, David Mosberger wrote: >> >>>>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:42:35 -0600, "Donny Cooper" >> said: >> Donny> David, What about the recently added "arch" field for 2.4.7, Donny> will it stay consistent in the kernel throughout each chip Donny> generation for Intel 64-bit. >> Donny> Currently --> arch : IA-64 >> Yup, it's hardcoded and I am not planing on changing it. Dan> Hasn't Intel officially renamed it IPF? The official line from HP is that the architecture has been renamed to "Itanium Processor Family" or "IPF" in short (I believe that's also Intel's line, but I won't pretend to speak for Intel). I'm not planning on changing from IA-64 to IPF for a very pragmatic reason: there is just too much software out there that is testing for ia64 already (if we changed the "arch" field, we presumably would have to change the output of "uname -m" and so on...). I also agree with Jim's sentiment that we need to emphasize that Linux (and everything that goes on top of it) is designed for the *architecture* not for a particular CPU model. The terms "IA-64" and "Itanium" make this distinction clear. In contrast, "IPF" and "Itanium" muddle the two. --david PS: I do have to admit though that if I ever have to give a talk on IA-64 in German, I'll certainly be using IPF instead. No interest in sounding like a donkey! ;-)