Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour

[Juergen Kreileder]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>>
>>> * uname(2) doesn't respect PER_LINUX32, it returns 'ppc64' instead
>>>   of 'ppc'
>>
>> I think this is a feature, not a bug, and I suspect you just broke
>> compiling a 64-bit kernel by default on ppc64.
>
> The uname syscall that Paul is referring to (__NR_olduname) isn't
> actually used nowadays any more.  The current uname syscall
> (__NR_uname, which is implemented by ppc64_newuname) already
> translates ppc64 to ppc depending on the personality.

The current code doesn't work like intended, on my G5 both 'linux32
uname -m' and 'linux32 sh -c "uname -m"' return 'ppc64' without the
patch.
With the patch both commands return 'ppc'.


        Juergen

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/
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