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

[Sam Ravnborg]

> >
> >Any good suggestions here???
> >UTS_MACHINE is set in top-level Makefile and if we specify
> >make ARCH=x86
> >we do not know if i386 or x86_&4 is correct until the configuration
> >has been read.
> >
> >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.

I will try to cook up a patch that sets CONFIG_UTS_MACHINE
and then we will use that value unless it is undefined in which
case we fall back to UTS_MACHINE (as today).

	Sam
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