Re: Patch for 2.2.10 (Quelle surprise!)

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:58:47 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> Well, while you're at it: it would be nice it uname(1) "-p" would
> return the processor type as on Solaris et al. Of course this involves
> glibc and sh-utils, not the kernel, but when implementing this feature
> you could just keep an eye on what is needed for this to work

'uname -m' returns the processor type. On my machine that gives
you 'i686'.

Do you mean uname -p would return 'Intel'? 'AMD' and so on?

> Don't let yourself becoming discouraged by thos procfs proponents: a
> lot of people are with you on this on!

I'm still working on it, this is only the beginning. =)

Cheers,
Alex
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