Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Juergen Kreileder <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour | | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:54:17 +0200 |
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> 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.
The current code doesn't work like intended, on my G5 both 'linux32 uname -m' and 'linux32 sh -c "uname -m"' return 'ppc64' without the patch. With the patch both commands return 'ppc'.
Juergen
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