AMD 64 support
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 17:41:38 UTC 2003
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>> >We may even want a new fedora-amd64-devel at fedora.redhat.com
>> >mailing list for the cause. Actually it might be nice if a
>> >fedora-<arch>-devel mailing list were created for each
>> >architecture the Fedora community deems worthy.
>>
>> Personally I'm on about 130 mailing lists. I really don't need
>> another one. People are too quick to create new mailing lists
>> nowadays unnecessarily. All 3 existing fedora lists are for the
>> most part identical off topic clones of each other, and a new
>> list would probably just add a 4th clone list. fedora-devel-list
>> is the best place to have these discussions and hit everyone in
>> one spot. If the volume of per arch discussion really grows to
>> the size that it warrants another mailing list then that is
>> something to consider, but doing it prematurely is just
>> personally an annoyance at least to me. Others may feel
>> differently of course.
>
>FWIW, there already is a list for AMD64 discussion, though it seems to
>get only a limited amount of traffic.
>
>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list
>
>This was created for the "GinGin64" technology preview, which was a sort
>of "alpha" prior to the Taroon beta for RHEL 3, but it could be used for
>generic RHL/Fedora discussion for AMD64.
amd64-list is a generic architecture list for the generalized
discussion of AMD64 stuff, particularly pertaining to Red Hat
products. It's similar in nature to ia64-list (does anyone even
post there anymore *grin*) and axp-list for Alpha for example.
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Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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