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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters: use IA-32 tag instead of i386
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:21:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46149576.9080401@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404220534.36cd24e9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Use documented tag for "IA-32" (not "i386") to indicate which
> kernel parameters apply to IA-32.
> 

We call this architecture "i386" everywhere else.  I think it makes more 
sense to change the documented tag to "i386", especially with Intel 
sometimes calling x86-64 "IA-32e".

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05  5:05 [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters: use IA-32 tag instead of i386 Randy Dunlap
2007-04-05  5:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 15:41   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-05 15:49     ` Alan Cox
2007-04-05 16:01       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-05 16:06         ` [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters: use IA-32 tag instead of i386 take 2 Alan Cox
2007-04-05 16:11           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-05  6:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-05 11:16 ` [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters: use IA-32 tag instead of i386 Alan Cox

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