linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:33:52 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@...or.de>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 

Make that 5 years for x86-64, 16 years for i386...

	-hpa
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