From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262010AbUBWT7Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:59:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262029AbUBWT7Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:59:16 -0500 Received: from smtp11.eresmas.com ([62.81.235.111]:18584 "EHLO smtp11.eresmas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262010AbUBWT7N (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:59:13 -0500 Message-ID: <403A5B85.9070405@wanadoo.es> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:59:01 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > In the long term, x86_64 creates more confusion: > - SuSE says AMD64 [1] > - RedHat says AMD64 [2] > - Debian says AMD64 [3] AMD64 is the incarnation done by AMD and IA-32e is the incarnation done by Intel of x86-64 architecture. I like x86-64 as a generic name, because the same kernel port runs on both chips and they run the same binaries. -- x86-64 GenuineIntel