From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:40:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43369ACF.3000102@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050925100525.GA14741@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:11:16PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>Add CONFIG_IA32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply
>>to 32-bit systems.
>>
>>(X86 && !X86_64) becomes IA32
>>(X86 || X86_64) becomes X86
>
>
> Please call it X86_32 or I386, to match the terminology we use everywhere.
> I386 would match the uname, and X86_32 would be the logical countepart
> to X86_64.
>
I386 is already used elsewhere for cpu optimization. Intel has called
all of its 32-bit cpus IA32 since they introduced IA64. I've never
heard of any usage of X86_32.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-25 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-24 23:11 [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32 Brian Gerst
2005-09-25 7:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-25 10:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-25 12:40 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2005-09-25 12:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-25 14:12 ` Brian Gerst
2005-09-25 18:18 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-09-26 8:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-09-26 9:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-09-26 18:25 ` Dave Jones
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