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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [Bug 6404] New: Buildroot's coreutils 'uname -p' reports 'Unknown' on recent ARM kernels
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:20:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813112018.7eecafe1@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANb1FjeQzEL39+P9ztOxYHHN=L=DYsBVjwAMiduWH_8j+6ZqQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Martin Banky,

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:14:37 -0700, Martin Banky wrote:
> This is a very long running problem that goes back to at least 2005. Google
> coreutils uname patch, to see the history of this problem. Uname will
> porbably need a different patch to work on ARM kernels.

If it's such a long-standing issue, why hasn't this never been fixed in
upstream coreutils? Some disagreement on what the problem is?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-01  4:30 [Buildroot] [Bug 6404] New: Buildroot's coreutils 'uname -p' reports 'Unknown' on recent ARM kernels bugzilla at busybox.net
2013-08-12 20:32 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-08-13  0:14   ` Martin Banky
2013-08-13  9:20     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-08-13 10:12       ` Martin Banky
2013-08-14 12:30   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-08-15 13:50     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-30 22:30 ` [Buildroot] [Bug 6404] " bugzilla at busybox.net

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