On Monday, July 19, 2010 5:30:54 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: > Hi, > I intend to commit the following change, that makes sysctls > hw.machine_arch and hw.machine to return "i386" for 32 bit > binaries run on amd64. In particular, 32 bit uname -m and uname -p > print "i386", that is good for i386 jails on amd64 kernels. > > I find the change very useful for me, but I wonder why such trivial > modification is not yet done. Can anybody note a possible fallout from > it ?
Presumably ia64 and powerpc64 would need a similar change as well? It looks fine to me. I suspect Y! used the UNAME_* approach as it didn't add yet- another local diff to maintain in the kernel, and the uname fixes at Y! might have predated SCTL_MASK32. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
