From 1b5d0045c960d07075b1023e8847a16c78a49f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Davis Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:18:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the reference 64-bit arch and remove a blurb about ia64 vs sparc64. Reported by: mat Reviewed by: bcr --- en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml index 64f9bc456d..97533291b2 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml @@ -3614,24 +3614,20 @@ Relnotes: yes
Our 32-bit reference platform is &arch.i386;, and our - 64-bit reference platform is &arch.sparc64;. Major design + 64-bit reference platform is &arch.amd64;. Major design work (including major API and ABI changes) must prove itself on at least one 32-bit and at least one 64-bit platform, preferably the primary reference platforms, before it may be committed to the source tree.
- The &arch.i386; and &arch.sparc64; platforms were chosen + The &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64; platforms were chosen due to being more readily available to developers and as representatives of more diverse processor and system designs - big versus little endian, register file versus register stack, different DMA and cache implementations, hardware page tables versus software TLB management etc. - The &arch.ia64; platform has many of the same - complications that &arch.sparc64; has, but is still limited in - availability to developers. - We will continue to re-evaluate this policy as cost and availability of the 64-bit platforms change.