Oliver Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -mpi && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model
> alpha alpha alpha
> cpu model               : EV56
>
> DS10:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 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
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