Re: procfs problems

root (root@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:09:08 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > > /proc/cpuinfo:
> > > port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips}
> > I would defiantly disagree in this part. Putting arch instead of port
> > would be ok. I think technically speaking i386 isn't a port of linux,
> > because it started there.
> First of all, who cares if it started there.
>
> Problem with architecture is that we may want to have: port: sparc;
> architecture: sun4c/sun4m/sun4d. On the other hand, probably
> architecture on the SPARC could be named something else.

How about:

architecture sparc
platform sun4c
cpu MB86900/1A
cpu_vendor Fujitsu

architecture 680x0
platform sun3
cpu 68030
cpu_vendor Motorola

architecture 80x86
platform pc-at
cpu 80486
cpu_vendor AMD

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-Dan