Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Should we report a "make ARCH=x86" as uname -m == x86??


That would break 5 years of a stable ABI. I don't think that is even remotely feasible.


Make that 5 years for x86-64, 16 years for i386...

	-hpa
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