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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 12:00 +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:13:22AM +0200, Jaap de Jong wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >is there any support for 64 bit intel/amd machines?
> >And if so, how to build for them?
> 
> Can we settle on a name please for i want to add a qemu machine for
> testing x86_64?
> 
> x8664
> amd64
> ...
> 
> Opinions?

"x86_64" seems to be what's currently used as the architecture name.  If
you want a value for ${MACHINE} then I guess something like
"x86_64-generic" would do.  I don't think there's any prohibition
against underscores in machine names.

p.