[x86-64] AMD Dev Center usage proposal

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:10:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Other things to do:
> >
> > * Choose a name for the port. I vote for amd64, since it avoids the
> >   nasty - vs _ problems and is also more likely to be recognized by
> >   people in the future. I suppose "x86-64" is going the way of
> >   "axp"...
> Agreed.

I'm just a bit worried what happens if Intel happen to adopt x86-64. I
guess they won't call it amd64...

> > * Hack dpkg to understand the new architecture.
> Yes. For the moment, we can keep building all packages as i386 .debs,
> but later, dpkg needs to know that amd64 is a superset of i386. That
> will require bigger changes than just adding another identifier
> to some lists.

I asked one of the dpkg-maintainers (Wichert Akkerman) on irc yesterday
and he seemed to be unaware of such changes. I suggest you present your
proposed changed to the debian-dpkg list, that's the only place both
dpkg-maintainers really read and will notice.


Michael