From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:06:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from p508B60E0.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.96.224]:35475 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:06:14 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6UE5tx6026492; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:05:55 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h6UE5tZP026491; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:05:55 +0200 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:05:54 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Keith M Wesolowski , "Kevin D. Kissell" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: CVS Update@-mips.org: linux Message-ID: <20030730140554.GB26372@linux-mips.org> References: <20030730031631.GD7366@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2931 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > I hope `uname -m' will continue to report the correct architecture and > > > that ARCH will be correctly handled (i.e. "mips" selecting a 32-bit build > > > and "mips64" a 64-bit one) -- have you considered this? > > > > Not intend to change the behaviour of uname. It actually changed in CVS, > > for now consider that a bug ... > > OK, I will. Fix is in CVS. > > We should consider changing the behaviour though. A machine type of > > mips64 broke lots of software. Of course that was all 32-bit softare but > > it raises the question if returning mips64 is really a good idea? > > Yes it is. It is the only way to check if the kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit > and config.guess needs it for guessing the canonical system name. That, > plus checking the default ld emulation lets it (or will let, once written) > select what is the proper default native configuration: > mips{,el}-unknown-linux-gnu, mips64{,el}-unknown-linux-gnu-abin32 or > mips64{,el}-unknown-linux-gnu-abi64. > > > As for choosing a 32-bit vs. 64-bit kernel, that's now a menu point and can > > be choosen like every other config option. > > Well, I liked the `make "ARCH=mips64"' way, but I suppose I'll have to > live with your change, sigh... Well, that was one of the things that were handy at times. Considering the patch I sent to Linus yesterday to Linus did remove 41010 lines of code that was a tiny price to pay. Ralf