On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:11 -0500, Alex White wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bob Chiodini wrote: > | Where does uname get the hardware platform (-i) information? Why, > on a > | Pentium 4 running an SMP version of the kernel, would i386 be > reported? > | The -p and -m options both report i686. Isn't this slightly > | inconsistent? > | > | On an AMD 64 system x86_64 is reported for all options (-i, -p and > - -m). > | > | Bob... > > Bob, I don't think that's necessarily inconsistent. Reading the > infor on coreutils uname the -i option reports the hardware platform > also known as the hardware implementation. Since on an AMD 64 system > it reports x86_64, that seems normal. On an ix86 system, I would > expect it to at least print that information with an ix86 platform. > > I believe (and I may be wholly incorrect here), the kernel that runs > on most ix86 platforms are i386 kernels. I think there was > discussion at some point on our list about i386 kernels and i686 so > on and so forth being compiled and installed. I don't recall that > conversation though in full, thusly I can't speak with authority. > > Sincerely > > - -- > Alex White Alex, I got the impression, back in the old days (FC1 :-)) when you could build a 686 specific kernel, that there was some specific 686 code in it. Probably a better question on my part would be: What's the difference between the processor, the hardware platform and the machine hardware name? Bob...
