Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:58:13 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/arm64 MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH identification Message-ID: <54DCE9B5.8040203@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BKzhiA4tbi-mXd6T114_zawmWTi3XbyXiUcgijQfHdyw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2A=Ev5gdYPKgEE0LS3-1sY%2BXmkZA7VCe71E6Fmbb=vMRw@mail.gmail.com> <607BF592-A09B-4DB4-9872-C9E63066AB57@bsdimp.com> <CAPyFy2Bgrap3TkFNuChyMC0Vwbjdt5FVW0ey03XtkK1iwNL1KQ@mail.gmail.com> <71E9C1B9-F819-420B-90A5-A36D58E71817@bsdimp.com> <CAPyFy2ATn5xgsvePCdvzqnyBS45izVHdL8yLaQQoKeJenSv9tg@mail.gmail.com> <228428CC-4042-4902-90A4-E7040F4BFFF5@bsdimp.com> <CAPyFy2BKzhiA4tbi-mXd6T114_zawmWTi3XbyXiUcgijQfHdyw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/12/15 09:15, Ed Maste wrote: >>> Oh - I don't care what directory Linux puts the kernel source in, only >>> what's reported by uname. As far as I can tell that has always been >>> aarch64 for uname -m. >> >> Traditionally in Linux, they have been a matched set. > > Ok, it appears they may have abandoned this. > >>> We might decide that "uname -m" has to be aarch64 to match >>> expectations of third-party software set by other operating systems. >>> If that in turn means we have to move the kernel source, so be it. >> >> This one I’m not on board with. You’ve not made a compelling case for >> it yet. > > That's why I said "we might decide" -- I'm not sure myself. > > However, there's no backwards compatibility concern here, we've never > had a FreeBSD release that reports "arm64" for "uname -m". There's no > reason for us to prefer "arm64" if everyone else uses "aarch64." > Also, having arm64 for uname -m and aarch64 for uname -p seems a bit > odd. I would assume uname -m would be "arm", not "arm64". Unless there are fundamental platform differences you are baking in somehow, which I don't know. -Nathan
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