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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

    * Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com> wrote:

    > On 10/2/07, Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.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.

    there are two problems with the use of uname -m:

    - the build machine architecture is not necessarily the same as the
    target architecture. (for example i cross-compile all my 32-bit
    kernels on a 64-bit box.)

    - we kept uname -m compatile. multilib depends on it, and other pieces
    of userspace as well. So uname -m still outputs 'i386' on 32-bit and
    'x86_64' on 64-bit - not 'x86'.

    a symlink looks like the best solution to me.

    Ingo
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