From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
Cc: Linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uname reports 'unknown'
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:14:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6826.1015902879@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Mar 2002 20:43:37 CDT." <1015897420.3054.0.camel@coredump>
On 11 Mar 2002 20:43:37 -0500,
Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net> wrote:
>Linux coredump 2.4.19-pre2-ac4-xfs-shawn10 #2 Mon Mar 11 03:36:35 EST
>2002 i586 unknown
>
>
>what should 'unknown' really be? I've never seen it different on Intel
>systems.
'unknown' is the output from uname -p, host processor type. That field
is not supported in the Linux kernel. uname.c in sh-utils has this
#if defined (HAVE_SYSINFO) && defined (SI_ARCHITECTURE)
if (sysinfo (SI_ARCHITECTURE, processor, sizeof (processor)) == -1)
error (1, errno, _("cannot get processor type"));
#else
strcpy (processor, "unknown");
#endif
HAVE_SYSINFO is always false in sh-utils and SI_ARCHITECTURE is not
defined in glibc so you always get unknown.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 1:43 uname reports 'unknown' Shawn Starr
2002-03-12 3:14 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-03-12 22:59 ` Shawn Starr
2002-03-12 23:22 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-12 23:37 ` J Sloan
2002-03-13 0:46 ` Carlos E Gorges
2002-03-12 5:16 ` J Sloan
2002-03-13 19:26 ` David Ford
2002-03-13 21:10 ` J Sloan
2002-03-12 11:59 ` Davidovac Zoran
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