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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

David Michael Leo Brown Jr. a écrit :
> > Why not make archspecs for your architecture instead of modifying someone 
> > else's
> > to work on yours?
>
>
> I'm not suggesting changing, I'm suggesting integrating the current x86_[32,64] 
> files to k8_[32,64] files then changing x86_[32,64] files to properly advertize 
> what the file name suggests.
>
> - David Brown

Interesting! I did know that x86-64 was the generic name for Intel(r) 
and AMD(r) 64 bits processor architecture, but I did not have the 
possibility to check anything. The k8 seems now obsolete, since in gcc 
3.4.3, you have the more readable name athlon64. However, I did not see 
x86-64 in the gcc man page (however it works with gcc 3.4.3).

As far as the ISO is concerned, and since we are producing a "i486" ISO 
for anything which is compatible with i486 (ie, i586 and i686), I think 
we should produce an x86-64 ISO that would work both on Intel(r) and 
AMD(r) 64 bits processor. That would mean 3 archspecs:

x86-64          : generic 64 bits
athlon64        : amd 64 bits specific
em64t		: intel 64 bits specific (except that it is currently the same as 
x86-64, right?)

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru