Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:57:15 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine |
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> > > >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 years of a stable ABI. I don't think that is even > remotely feasible.
I will try to cook up a patch that sets CONFIG_UTS_MACHINE and then we will use that value unless it is undefined in which case we fall back to UTS_MACHINE (as today).
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