Re: [PATCH] pthread_create.3: re-do the architecture/default stack size mapping

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi!,

On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:00:04PM +0100, наб wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 09:43:21PM +0100, наб wrote:
> > > +a per-architecture value is used for the stack size:
> > > +2 MB on most architectures; 4 MB on POWER and Sparc-64.
> > Why capitalize POWER and omit PC?  Other than that, LGTM.
> This is what the official nomenclature seems to be:
>   https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el says
>   > News
>   > 
>   > The IBM POWER platform, code name ppc64el, is an official architecture since
>   > DebianJessie.
>   > 
>   > Required Hardware
>   > 
>   > Debian/ppc64el requires, at minimum, a POWER8 processor machine. Although
>   > Debian was initially bootstrapped on a POWER7 set of servers, this class of
>   > server is not supported anymore, and you are not able to run Debian/ppc64el
>   > on a POWER 7 processor without hitting an illegal instruction fault.
>   > 
>   > There are, at this moment, a plenty of POWER8 machines being sold by
>   > different companies. 
> 
> All the branding I've ever seen in the modern world calls it POWER,
> and AIUI the PowerPC branding was abandoned like 15 years ago.
> 
> The debian wiki page even says
>   > The ppc64el port is not aimed for old Powerpc Macintosh machines,
>   > and, at the moment, there is no way to install it on this class of
>   > machines.
> but wikipedia tells me the last product from this line came out in 2006,
> which is pushing two decades by now. Even then, apparently
> "PowerPC is largely based on the earlier IBM POWER architecture"
> so it's the same thing.
> 
> Maybe when Apple had a choke-hold on the millennial mind a calling it
> "PowerPC" could've made sense, but through a modern lens PowerPC,
> to the extent it exists at all, is just a derivative of POWER I think
> 
> Best,

Hmmm, thanks!  Could you include this (or an excerpt if you prefer) in
the commit message, since we're changing the nomenclature?

Have a lovely night!
Alex

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