On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:14 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote: > > During the board meeting, the naming issue was re-raised; “x86 SIG” just > isn't that great. So I'd like to propose “x86-64 SIG” instead, with a > hyphen. We use “x86_64” in the RPM architecture name and configure > triplets, but only because we must, as “-” is consindered a separator in > these contexts. The official vendor-neutral architecture name is > x86-64. > > During the meeting, I was under the impression that the board was > leaning towards a narrow scope, but that is not quite what the posted > minutes reflect. Per Fabian's announcement, we have at least a bit of > wiggle room for non-x86 ISA experiments in CBS (ThunderX2 has LSE > atomics support). Personally, I'm not interested in such experiments at > this time, though. But we could call the SIG “ISA SIG” to keep open the > possibility for non-x86 work, if that's what people want. > > Thoughts? I'd be cool with calling it the ISA SIG. For now, we can constrain it to x86_64 stuff, but in the future, I could envision others looking at POWER and zSystems ISA bumps too, since those happen too. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!