On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:37:31PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Note: This patch does not fix the uname -m issue - to do so > Andreas' patch is needed. > > Sam
Linus, The issue Sam refers to is that UTS_MACHINE is set to "x86" instead of "i386" or "x86_64" when building with ARCH=x86. Thus the new kernel when booted will give either "x86" on x86_64 and many i386 systems or even "x66" on other i386 systems for 'uname -m'. Many tools rely on the usual values of "x86_64", "i366" and "i686" here. So we shouldn't change this. Attached patch fixes that issue. Please apply. Regards, Andreas -- x86: fix UTS_MACHINE to be i386 for 32-bit build and x86_64 for 64-bit build Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 116b03a..7aa1dc6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ endif $(srctree)/arch/x86/Makefile%: ; ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y) + UTS_MACHINE := i386 include $(srctree)/arch/x86/Makefile_32 else + UTS_MACHINE := x86_64 include $(srctree)/arch/x86/Makefile_64 endif - - - -- 1.5.3.4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/