severity 655428 wishlist tags 655428 + wontfix thanks a...@spoontech.biz wrote: > uname -i seems to only ever report "unknown" as the hardware platform. > strace shows that uname doesn't call uname() on debian, where as on other > distros (RH) it does. Tried on multiple systems, including Intel and AMD > systems.
The root cause of the problem is that there isn't any better place than uname(2), the system call, in order to get this information and this information is not available from uname(2). Therefore this cannot be handled in any sane manor. Plus the option -i is really the same general problem as 'uname -p' which I mention here for search purposes. You should probably find a different source of information for this if 'uname -m' isn't sufficient. This is a duplicate of Bug#193170 and I might merge it with it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193170 Here is an upstream discussion of the problem: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00053.html Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
