linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

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Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:00:46 -0300
From:	"Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@...il.com>
To:	"Alistair John Strachan" <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

On 10/2/07, Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk> wrote:
> This is certainly a tool issue, but if I use Debian's kernel-image "make-kpkg"
> wrapper around the kernel build system, it fails with:
>
> cp: cannot stat `arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
>
> Obviously, this file has moved to arch/x86/boot, but it seems like possibly
> unnecessary breakage. I've been copying bzImage for years from
> arch/x86_64/boot, and I'm sure there's a handful of scripts (other than
> Debian's kernel-image) doing this too.

I believe most sane tools would be using the output of uname -m, so a
possible way to fix this would be fixing the data passed to userspace
from uname. However, that might be the case that it creates a new set
of problems too, with tools relying on the output of uname -m to
determine wheter the machine is 32 or 64 bit, and so on.

-- 
Glauber de Oliveira Costa.
"Free as in Freedom"
http://glommer.net

"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
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