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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:34:43 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> This patch exports to userspace the boot loader ID which has been 
>  exported by (b)zImage boot loaders since boot protocol version 2.

Why does userspace need to know this?

>  --- linux-2.5/arch/i386/Makefile	24 Dec 2004 21:09:54 -0000	1.73
>  +++ linux-2.5/arch/i386/Makefile	28 Dec 2004 04:56:17 -0000
>  @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
>   LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=
>   CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__i386__
>   
>  +# This allows compilation with an x86-64 compiler
>  +CC_M32		:= $(call cc-option,-m32)
>  +CC 		+= $(CC_M32)

Was this hunk deliberately a part of this patch?