linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:35:36 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 23:18 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> The uname will still report
> "aarch64" to match the compiler triplet and also avoid confusion of
> existing 32-bit ARM scripts that simply check for "arm*" in the machine
> name.

The compiler triplet seems trivial to change.

The other bit is a relatively weak argument as the 32bit arm
scripts can be changed or fixed likely just as easily.




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