Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > >Any good suggestions here??? > >UTS_MACHINE is set in top-level Makefile and if we specify > >make ARCH=x86 > >we do not know if i386 or x86_&4 is correct until the configuration > >has been read. > > > >Should we report a "make ARCH=x86" as uname -m == x86?? > > > > That would break 5 year

Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Should we report a "make ARCH=x86" as uname -m == x86?? That would break 5 years of a stable ABI. I don't think that is even remotely feasible. Make that 5 years for x86-64, 16 years for i386... -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:20:15AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Andreas Herrmann wrote: The new ARCH=x86 kernel build causes weired machine strings on 32-bit. For a cross-compiled kernel I have $ uname -m x66_64 For a kernel natively built on a 32 bit mac

Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:20:15AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andreas Herrmann wrote: > >The new ARCH=x86 kernel build causes weired machine strings on 32-bit. > >For a cross-compiled kernel I have > > > > $ uname -m > > x66_64 > > > >For a kernel natively built on a 32 bit machine I

Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andreas Herrmann wrote: The new ARCH=x86 kernel build causes weired machine strings on 32-bit. For a cross-compiled kernel I have $ uname -m x66_64 For a kernel natively built on a 32 bit machine I have $ uname -m x66 Looking at the sources, I think that utsname->machin

Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

2007-11-16 Thread Andreas Herrmann
The new ARCH=x86 kernel build causes weired machine strings on 32-bit. For a cross-compiled kernel I have $ uname -m x66_64 For a kernel natively built on a 32 bit machine I have $ uname -m x66 Looking at the sources, I think that utsname->machine was initial