I'm sorry that my original terse reply, which was well meant, stirred up a
hornet's nest.
I simply didn't know that it wasn't to be found in the two
distributions you mentioned
(I did know it was certainly in 9front).

On Sun, 22 May 2022 at 19:18, Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You enquired about support for an architecture within Plan 9 on a Plan 9
> list so the context was clear and I reply with the relevant architecture
> string to help you locate it, but get a little lecture about Arm's naming
> scheme (come to think of it, what are Thumb-1 and Thumb-2 called?). Next
> time, I'll insist on the 27B/6.
>
> On Fri, 20 May 2022, 22:27 adr, <a...@sdf.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 May 2022, Charles Forsyth wrote:
>>
>> > Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 21:34:05 +0100
>> > From: Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com>
>> > Reply-To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
>> > To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
>> > Subject: Re: [9fans] Aarch64 on labs|9legacy?
>> >
>> > It's called arm64
>> 
>> From
>> https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/Introduction?lang=en
>> 
>> "AArch64 is the name used to describe the 64-bit execution state
>> of the ARMv8 architecture. AArch32 describes the 32-bit execution
>> state of the ARMv8 architecture, which is almost identical to ARMv7.
>> GNU and Linux documentation (except for Redhat and Fedora distributions)
>> sometimes refers to AArch64 as ARM64."
>> 
>> I would agree that you could use the therm ARM64 as a synonym of
>> Aarch64, but giving me just that response... It isn't even funny.
>> 
>> adr.

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