Re: AMD k6 cosmetic problems
John Looney (johnl@horizon.ie)
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:08:25 +0100
Ar Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 07:15:56AM +0000, scriofa H. Peter Anvin:
> > Is there a patch for 2.0.x kernels that changes the 'i586'
> > in `uname -a` to 'amdk6' or similar? If not, in which part of
> > the 2.0.x kernel sources would i have to look to make the
> > right changes ?
> You really, *really* don't want to do that. In fact, it has been a
> mistake from the start changing this with each generation. You may
> note that the i386 is the only architecture which does this. It would
> have been much better having it report "i386" or "ix86" or "x86" for
> all versions. (i386 is the most correct, really, since it is the
> common denominator -- i286 was a completely different architecture as
> far as Linux is concerned.) Intel recently has started referring to
> the i386 architecture as "ia32", but that's a recent invention.
I think Sun's method for this is also acceptable - on Solaris x86, the
uname command returns "i86pc". However, seeing as most of the gnu tools and
the kernel use i386, I think it's not worth the hassle of changing it.
Kate
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