Xeon 64-bit?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 14:12:44 EDT 2007


On 7/9/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> I find the use of 'amd64' for package arch in debian/ubuntu/derivatives...
> well, dumb and confusing for end-users who don't know any better (as
> evidenced by the existence of this thread).
> I presume Debian jumped on building 64-bit packages for the AMD64 architecture
> before Intel announced their 64-bit x86-compatible chips, and decided to call
> the packages amd64. The lack of planning and foresight there is amusing.
> Unless of course its an intentional F-U to Intel... In which case, its
> amusing in a different way, but still stupid if you care about end-users.
> (Nb: Red Hat and SUSE generally use x86_64 as the arch for AMD64 and EM64T
> alike)

  amd64 was the original name of the kernel arch for AMD chips, which
is why others inherited this naming convention.

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-- Thomas


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