On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Samstag, den 05.02.2005, 14:22 +0100 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > > coreutils-5.2.1-38 > > > ------------------ > > > * Fri Feb 04 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> 5.2.1-38 > > > - Special case for ia32e in uname (bug #145266). > > > > this is wrong. Very wrong. > > uname should report x86_64 for both AMD and Intel 64 bit x64 machines. > > The architecture is x86_64. No ifs or buts. > > While at it and just out of curiosity -- why to we have both ia32e and > x86_64 as possible archs in bugzilla.redhat.com? because for RHEL3 we had to do a second kernel rpm because we couldn't retrofit em64t support into the kernel within the compability and stability contraints rhel3 updates have. > I'm just wondering if that is (still?) needed... And yes, I know there not for anything not RHEL3. Note that ia32e is doubly wrong; Intel calls their cpu technology EM64T not ia32e.
