On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: > IMHO, uname is not correctly implemented under Linux (version-wise for > ports and machine/processor-wise in general.)
Again, the EXTRAVERSION=powerpc in the kernel-image-* packages has nothing to do with uname implementation or Linux platform ports. It is added intentionally because those images are usually not compiled from pure kernel.org sources; they are patched by the Debian maintainer. Modules use the version string to determine whether they were compiled from the exact same source as the kernel, so it's good to add EXTRAVERSION whenever a significant patch is applied. When you do compile an unpatched kernel on powerpc, the version will simply be a number, without any -powerpc or -pmac etc. For example, my iMac has [ `uname -r` = 2.2.19 ], since I used the plain 2.2.19 source. The issue of 'uname -pm' is separate, and I agree with you there.
