Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:45:23 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote: >> >> * uname(2) doesn't respect PER_LINUX32, it returns 'ppc64' instead of 'ppc' > > I think this is a feature, not a bug, and I suspect you just broke > compiling a 64-bit kernel by default on ppc64.
The uname syscall that Paul is referring to (__NR_olduname) isn't actually used nowadays any more. The current uname syscall (__NR_uname, which is implemented by ppc64_newuname) already translates ppc64 to ppc depending on the personality.
Andreas.
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