Re: uname -a and 2.1.56

Teunis Peters (teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:19:54 -0600 (MDT)


(don't mind me - am slowly moving to company email as usa.net's been
corrupting my mailbox *grrr*)

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Roy P. Turner wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.971002175622.25700A-100000@sigil.computersupportcentr
> e.com>, Teunis Peters writes:
> > my system (2.1.56 with cyrix, joliet, and loopback patches)
> > returns for uname -a:
> > Linux sigil 2.1.56 #4 Wed Sep 24 16:12:03 MDT 1997 iE86
...
> Look at the last 8 or so lines of include/asm-i386/bugs.h The cyrix
> patch makes a small error in patching this file. Compare it to the
> following and make the appropriate change. This is how it should look.
>
> __initfunc(static void check_bugs(void))
> {
> check_tlb();
> check_fpu();
> check_hlt();
> check_amd_k6();
> system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + (x86 & 0x0f);
> }

That was it exactly
(though mine had another copy 2 lines up (before check_amd_k6))
the broken line looked like:
system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + x86

Thanks and G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis