axp question 'bout uname voodoo

axp question 'bout uname voodoo

[Oliver Falk]

Hi!

We have a discussion on alpha mailinglist at the moment, because of 
uname -mpi.

AFAIK, uname -m should do some glibc call, which calls kernel, right?

However, I have two machines:

AS1000A:
[root@tyskie ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model
alpha alpha alpha
cpu model               : EV56

DS10:
[root@gosa ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep model
alpha alpha alpha
cpu model               : EV67

Shouldn't uname rport alphaev67 and alphaev56? Maybe it's just a .config 
problem. Maybe the kernel needs to be compiled for the different 
sub-arches!?

Any help would be great.

Thx,
  Oliver

Re: axp question 'bout uname voodoo

[Eric W. Biederman]

Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at> writes:

> Hi!
>
> We have a discussion on alpha mailinglist at the moment, because of uname -mpi.
>
> AFAIK, uname -m should do some glibc call, which calls kernel, right?
>
> However, I have two machines:
>
> AS1000A:
> [root@tyskie ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model
> alpha alpha alpha
> cpu model               : EV56
>
> DS10:
> [root@gosa ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep model
> alpha alpha alpha
> cpu model               : EV67
>
> Shouldn't uname rport alphaev67 and alphaev56? Maybe it's just a .config
> problem. Maybe the kernel needs to be compiled for the different sub-arches!?
>
> Any help would be great.

The kernel uname function at least does not have fields that
report processor or hardware platform.

Eric

Re: axp question 'bout uname voodoo

[Oliver Falk]

Hi Eric!

On 03/19/2007 06:44 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at> writes:
[ ... ]
> The kernel uname function at least does not have fields that
> report processor or hardware platform.

But on i386 it reports:
[oliver@pils ~]$ uname -mpi
i686 i686 i386

And I remember that it used to report alphaev67 or alphaev56...

-of

Re: axp question 'bout uname voodoo

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 20 2007 09:17, Oliver Falk wrote:
>
> But on i386 it reports:
> [oliver@pils ~]$ uname -mpi
> i686 i686 i386

Reports this for me:
$ uname -mpi
i686 athlon i386

> And I remember that it used to report alphaev67 or alphaev56...

Jan
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