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On Wed, Oct 18, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> But it's called '/proc/ppc64' right now on lots of machines, so you
> can't go changing it.

if test -d /proc/ppc64 .. is a quick way to check wether the system is
64bit or not. Similar to if test -d /proc/iSeries ..
You better leave that simple interface.