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[gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/8 v2] Correct IA64 reference
From: |
Sanjeev Gupta |
Subject: |
[gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/8 v2] Correct IA64 reference |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Nov 2018 02:27:50 +0800 |
Although IA32 is the old i[3456]86 architecture, IA64
is the totally different Itanium chipset. The 64-bit
equiv of x96 is x86-64
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Industry_naming_conventions
Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden>
---
www/hacking.html.in | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in
index 0ebd09db..700eb757 100644
--- a/www/hacking.html.in
+++ b/www/hacking.html.in
@@ -756,8 +756,8 @@ data.</p>
<h2 id="porting">Porting to weird machines: endianness, width, and signedness
issues.</h2>
-<p>The gpsd code is well-tested on 32- and 64-bit IA chips, also on
-PPCs, also on MIPS. Thus, it's known to work on mainstream chips of
+<p>The gpsd code is well-tested on IA32 and x86-64 (amd64) chips, also on ARM,
+PPCs, and MIPS. Thus, it's known to work on mainstream chips of
either 32 or 64 bits and either big-endian or little-endian
representation with IEE754 floating point.</p>
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2.19.1
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