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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
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