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Subject: Request to add effectivity attribute
Members of the TC: We've recently found that the effectivity attributes are not quite enough to differentiate between some of the platform and architecture combinations that wee need to support. Sun would like to request an addition to the effectivity attributes in order to identify this content. We currently use OS and Arch to label text for our different platforms and operating systems. In the past we've used the OS attribute to differentiate 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. However this isn't really the correct place for 32/64 bit. As our list of operating systems and architectures the permutations are too complex for the existing attributes. We'd like to propose the addition of a new attribute called wordsize that would indicate the word size for the architecture. Here is an example of our attribute values: OS Arch WordSize Solaris SPARCv9 32 HP-UX AMD 64 Windows x86 Linux PowerPC-403 MIPS While I hesitate to add a new attribute, the only alternative is for us to cram the word size into the existing attributes: OS Arch Solaris SPARCv9 Solaris-32 SPARCv9-32 Solaris-64 SPARCv9-64 HP-UX AMD HP-UX-32 AMD-32 HP-UX-64 AMD-64 Windows x86 Windows-32 x86-32 Windows-64 x86-64 Linux PowerPC-403 Linux-32 PowerPC-403-32 Linux-64 PowerPC-403-64 MIPS MIPS-32 MIPS-64 This alternative can lead to ambiguous markup and confusing generated text. We'd like to avoid that by using a third attribute. If you have any comments on this proposal please let me know. Thanks! Steve Cogorno Sun Microsystems
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