Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:37:52 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:03:14 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Levon wrote: > What other ways ? Dave M reasonably argued it wasn't part of the > architecture's ABI, so did not have a place in the headers. You should certainly see it in "uname -a" output, for example. Doesn't tell you the kernel pointer size. We fake the uname output when a process runs as PERS_LINUX_32BIT which is what we use to trick 'configure' and other build programs in order to build 32-bit apps properly.
Compile oprofile for the proper architecture if you do it yourself, and complain to the vendor if the vendor is stupid enough to supply a 32-bit oprofile with a 64-bit kernel. There is _no_ excuse to bloat the kernel for user mistakes. There simply is no fully usable 64-bit userland on some of these platforms. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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