Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Change MACHINE_ARCH "arm" to "armel"?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/19/2002 23:02:13
will this confuse config.guess for piles of autoconf'ed 3rd party
packages?
-dan
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> Folks...
>
> I can't believe I spaced it this long.
>
> I think we need to change the current ARM MACHINE_ARCH from "arm"
> to "armel". This is because we will soon be supporting a big-endian
> ARM platform (or two or three), and will thus need an "armeb".
>
> Any objections? If not, I can do the change quite quickly.
>
> Again, sorry for bringing this up at the last minute, but if we're
> going to do it, we should do it before we ship 1.6.
>
> --
> -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
>