From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, torvalds@osdl.org, paulus@samba.org,
akpm@osdl.org, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jk@blackdown.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:45:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050608204533.GA3305@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Jun 08, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:49:48 +0200
>
> > With the LINUX32 personality, you can build 32 bit binaries through
> > autoconf, rpmbuild, or the kernel without pretending to be
> > cross-compiling. It may not be the best solution, but people seem to
> > rely on it and the patch brings ppc64 in line with how it works on
> > the other architectures.
>
> I totally agree, this has a large precedence on many platforms
> and there are even gcc frontends that check the uname output
> to decide what code model to output by default.
They (the auto* tools) should probably check for gcc -dumpmachine
instead for uname -m. Both have nothing in common, they just happen to
be equal on Walmart boxes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 11:59 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour Paul Mackerras
2005-06-08 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-08 18:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-08 19:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-08 20:45 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2005-06-08 20:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-08 20:54 ` Juergen Kreileder
2005-06-08 22:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-09 7:02 ` Juergen Kreileder
2005-06-08 23:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-06-08 23:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-11 11:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-08 23:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] <20050608.121950.104038734.davem@davemloft.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-06-08 20:50 ` Marcus Meissner
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