Re: [PATCH] enable RTAS /proc for PowerPC/CHRP platform

Exact, it is not about poluting, but about rationalizing. The fact is that
these are the two infos that are the most necessary to userland, then why
disseminate the info in thousand different places, instead of making it easily
available in a canonical place in a standard format for everyone ? 

Why would that be absolutely necessary to userland ? We've lived very
well without that so far.
 

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About 32bit/64bit, maybe VmallocTotal from /proc/meminfo can be used.
incredible large numer == must be a 64bit kernel
No idea how reliable it is. There are those 36bit systems, but I bet
they dont run a distro.

This sounds like the ugliest hack i have seen around, and is prone to break. A
proper /proc/cpuinfo flag would be most welcome to solve this cleanly.

uname is your friend... damn, and if you want to be real sure, then just
try to run a 64 bits binary and see what happens :)

Ben.