Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour

From: David S. Miller
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 14:22:54 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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.
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