On Mär 18 2025, Helge Deller wrote: > My current (unreliable) way to detect it is using uname. > The kernel string and arch name don't match: > > (sid_hppa)root@paq:/# uname -a > Linux paq 6.1.0-31-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.128-1 (2025-02-07) > parisc GNU/Linux > > (sid_hppa)root@paq:/# uname -r > 6.1.0-31-amd64 > > (sid_hppa)root@paq:/# uname -m > parisc > > This is a qemu-linux-user parisc(hppa) emulation running on x86-64.
That is highly distribution specific, by default the release part does not contain anything arch specific. For riscv the most reliable way is to look for "uarch *: qemu" in /proc/cpuinfo. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
