Re: Kernel compatibility between NetBSD/xen and NetBSD/i386 (or NetBSD/amd64)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I've been thinnking about this already; what's stopped me doing it is
> compatibility with third-party sofware. What do we break by changing
> x86's uname -m output ?

That is a good question and I don't have an answer. I guess we need
to try and fix it. There already systems which return different things
e.g. Solaris/i386 ("i86pc"?) or Linux (usually "i686").

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/