svn commit: r227536 - in head: release share/man/man7

[David Chisnall]

On 17 Nov 2011, at 14:31, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

>>>> Kinda gross but "FBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-amd64-bootonly.iso"?
>>> 
>>> Can't we use one if they are equal?
>> 
>> I'd prefer consistency. [...]
> 
> But it looks so plain stupid!

I've had someone ask me what amd64-amd64 meant when I pointed them as the RC announcement.  I replied that I had no idea and suggested that possibly RE had been handed over to the department of redundancy department.  Having read this thread, I can now confidently say... that I still have no idea.

But (with my compiler-writer hat on) please tell me that we're not inventing yet another incompatible form of target triple.  We have at least twice as many as we need already...

David