Re: bug concerning <uname> and AMD cpu's

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Randy Forston wrote:

>A fellow Ubuntu user on one of our lists ran <uname -m> on his AMD
>motherboard/cpu combo and it returned i686.
>
>Obviously, this is a k7 cpu.
>
>Any chance the <uname> utility might be upgraded to appropriately label AMD
>as well as Intel cpu's??

This string ("i686" or anything else) is not coded into coreutils'
uname; rather it's simply passing back whatever is returned by the
uname(2) syscall.

You might want to look into the mechanism by which the Linux kernel is
setting this value.


Cheers,
Phil