Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:37:47 +0100 | From | Andreas Herrmann <> | Subject | Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine |
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The new ARCH=x86 kernel build causes weired machine strings on 32-bit. For a cross-compiled kernel I have
$ uname -m x66_64
For a kernel natively built on a 32 bit machine I have
$ uname -m x66
Looking at the sources, I think that utsname->machine was initially set as "x86_64" and "x86", respectively. But in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in check_bugs() the second character is set to '6' on my K7.
I think the right solution for that problem is to use "x86_64" as the machine name for 64-bit and to keep the old "i[3456]86" strings for 32-bit kernels.
Several tools (e.g. the kernel build itself) will be confused otherwise (*).
Regards,
Andreas
(*) Example: $ uname -m x66_64 $ make menuconfig Makefile:425: /projects/linux-2.6-x86/arch/x66_64/Makefile: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/projects/linux-2.6-x86/arch/x66_64/Makefile'. Stop.
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