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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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