Re: : Fwd: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:49:25PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Their likely referring to the ARMv8 Foundation Model which is a
> virtualized mv8 (aka arm64, AArch64 *) CPU. This to help boot strap
> software validation ahead of silicon availability.
> 
> http://www.arm.com/products/processors/instruction-set-architectures/armv8-architecture.php
> 
> Qualcomm has their ARMv8 silicon announced. But we're still largely
> looking at another year for consumer devices.
> 
> http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/810
> 
> 
> (*): The distro's are divergent on Architecture naming again *sigh*

Well Ubuntu/Debian/etc do not allow capitals in their architecture names,
so AArch64 would be aarch64, but I think most people find arm64 a lot
more obvious.

Similarly underscore is a package name field seperator, so x86_64 was
not acceptable to use, so they went with amd64, which also happened to
pay tribute to the inventor of the architecture.  The x32 architecture is
at least a fairly nice name, given how many peopel refer to x86_64 as x64.

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