On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:07 AM, John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I thought amd64 was a special case because we run biarch, whereas ia64 was always 64-bit... Wouldn't this change also create problems later on down the line when we're no longer biarch? Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
