Upon request I have updated the patch description
and hope it is now more explanatory.
IMHO this should go into 2.6.24.
BTW, the patch was tested with v2.6.24-rc3-19-g2ffbb83.
Regards,
Andreas
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x86: correctly set UTS_MACHINE for "make ARCH=x86"
For a kernel built with "make ARCH=x86" the following system
information is displayed when running the new kernel
$ uname -m
x86
On some i386 systems (e.g. K7) we even have the following information
$ uname -m
x66
This is weird. The usual information for "uname -m" should be "x86_64"
on 64-bit and "i386" or "i686" on 32-bit.
This patch fixes the issue by setting UTS_MACHINE to "i386" for 32-bit
kernel builds and to "x86_64" for 64-bit kernel builds. I.e., "x86"
won't be used for UTS_MACHINE anymore.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[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
-
-
-
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1.5.3.4
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