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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/linux.scm5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 31e6c9bf73..b687e363f6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@
#:use-module (guix download)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
-(define (system->linux-architecture arch)
+(define-public (system->linux-architecture arch)
+ "Return the Linux architecture name for ARCH, a Guix system name such as
+\"x86_64-linux\"."
(let ((arch (car (string-split arch #\-))))
(cond ((string=? arch "i686") "i386")
((string-prefix? "mips" arch) "mips")
+ ((string-prefix? "arm" arch) "arm")
(else arch))))
(define-public linux-libre-headers