Fwd: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 17 21:26:51 UTC 2014
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:49:25PM -0400, scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org 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.
--
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
More information about the Legacy
mailing list