Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:57:15 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine
Message-ID: <20071117075715.GB4723@uranus.ravnborg.org>
References: <20071116111446.GA16968@devil> <20071116123747.GA12086@devil> <473DB52F.2040703@zytor.com> <20071116221535.GA1810@uranus.ravnborg.org> <473E209A.7080806@zytor.com>
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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).

	Sam
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