On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:44:55PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> "MIPS32" and "MIPS64" have a very specific
> meaning now, and for all I know are already
> trademarked/brandmarked/whatever by
> MIPS Technologies Inc. to describe the new
> baseline ISA and privileged resource architecture
> (CP0, in other words) standards for 32-bit
> and 64-bit MIPS devices. It's no big deal
> for informal discussion, but *please* do not
> use the strings "MIPS32" or "MIPS64" in the
> code or documentation unless you are really
> and truly referring to MIPS32 and MIPS64
> as defined by MIPS. If you want to refer to
> the 64-bit versus 32-bit Linux ports, please
> express it otherwise, e.g. MIPS64bit,
> MIPS_64_bit, 64bitMIPS, etc. Otherwise
> there is going to be a lot of needless confusion
> and a further source schism.
The use of these terms is pretty coherent with their meaning as given by
Mips, Inc. Linux/MIPS32 is a implementation of Linux (mostly) for MIPS32
processors, Linux/MIPS64 for MIPS64 processors, so I don't see the problem.
Ralf
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