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

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Friday 16 October 2009 12:43:46 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >     Hello,
> >
> > "uname -m" reports "i386" (respectively "amd64") under a NetBSD/xen
> > kernel. I think this is wrong because the two kernels are not ABI
> > compatible to none Xen kernels.
> >
> > I would therefore like to suggest to NetBSD/xen report "xen-i386"
> > (respectively "xen-amd64") as the machine. After this change has
> > been made we could teach the build framework to create both
> > kind of modules.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> 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 ?

configure scripts generated by autoconf. We would have to adjust
config.sub and config.guess.

Christoph