Adam Aube wrote: > I have an Athlon XP, with a custom kernel compiled for Athlons, and uname -m > returns "i686" for me as well (though it should probably say "K7").
But it is an implementation of the i686 architecture. > According to the uname info page: > > "Some systems provide a mechanism to interrogate the kernel directly for > this information. On systems without such a mechanism, the GNU C library > fills in this field based on the configuration name that was specified when > building and installing the library." > > Perhaps it is getting it from libc6? Nope. It is getting it from the kernel. Look in section 2 where system calls are documented. man 2 uname Bob
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