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Message-ID: <473E28E0.8050307@zytor.com>
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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