Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

[Glauber de Oliveira Costa]

On 10/2/07, Alistair John Strachan <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is certainly a tool issue, but if I use Debian's kernel-image "make-kpkg"
> wrapper around the kernel build system, it fails with:
>
> cp: cannot stat `arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
>
> Obviously, this file has moved to arch/x86/boot, but it seems like possibly
> unnecessary breakage. I've been copying bzImage for years from
> arch/x86_64/boot, and I'm sure there's a handful of scripts (other than
> Debian's kernel-image) doing this too.

I believe most sane tools would be using the output of uname -m, so a
possible way to fix this would be fixing the data passed to userspace
from uname. However, that might be the case that it creates a new set
of problems too, with tools relying on the output of uname -m to
determine wheter the machine is 32 or 64 bit, and so on.

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