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Commit 43517854 authored by Andreas Herrmann's avatar Andreas Herrmann Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: correctly set UTS_MACHINE for "make ARCH=x86"



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.

Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
parent 000f4a9e
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