Re: Kconfig: ARCH=x86 causes wrong utsname.machine

H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-16T23:34:18Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Should we report a "make ARCH=x86" as uname -m == x86??
>>
>
> That would break 5 years of a stable ABI. I don't think that is even
> remotely feasible.
>

Make that 5 years for x86-64, 16 years for i386...

-hpa