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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:20:18 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [Bug 6404] New: Buildroot's coreutils 'uname -p'
 reports 'Unknown' on recent ARM kernels
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Dear Martin Banky,

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:14:37 -0700, Martin Banky wrote:
> This is a very long running problem that goes back to at least 2005. Google
> coreutils uname patch, to see the history of this problem. Uname will
> porbably need a different patch to work on ARM kernels.

If it's such a long-standing issue, why hasn't this never been fixed in
upstream coreutils? Some disagreement on what the problem is?

Thomas
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