Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:10:06 GMT From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname Message-ID: <200602181310.k1IDA60r010298@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/77355; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:02:31 +0100 Hi! Can we revisit this? It's feasible for us to have this in HW_MACHINE_ARCH instead (-p). Would you like me to send a patch for that? Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > -p is supposed to give the arch (e.g., -i386) and -m is supposed to > give the platfrom (is that the sub-arch?) (e.g., i686). It is useless > for these to return the same string. (i686 is also useless, since it > is the same for all i386's newer than about 8 years old, but that is > another bug. The hw.model sysctl gives more useful info (e.g., > "AMD Athlon(tm)"), but uname(1) only uses uname(2) which doesn't go > near this sysctl.) > > However, I don't like changing the -a output (-a gets -m but not -p). -- Robert Millan
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