Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>
>> * uname(2) doesn't respect PER_LINUX32, it returns 'ppc64' instead of 'ppc'
>
> I think this is a feature, not a bug, and I suspect you just broke
> compiling a 64-bit kernel by default on ppc64.
The uname syscall that Paul is referring to (__NR_olduname) isn't actually
used nowadays any more. The current uname syscall (__NR_uname, which is
implemented by ppc64_newuname) already translates ppc64 to ppc depending
on the personality.
Andreas.
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