Re: rawhide report: 20050205 changes

[Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com>]

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 redhat com> 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.