Re: uname reports 'unknown'

[Shawn Starr]

Perhaps it should display P54C which is my P200 processor type?

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:14, Keith Owens wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2002 20:43:37 -0500, 
> Shawn Starr <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >Linux coredump 2.4.19-pre2-ac4-xfs-shawn10 #2 Mon Mar 11 03:36:35 EST
> >2002 i586 unknown
> >
> >
> >what should 'unknown' really be? I've never seen it different on Intel
> >systems.
> 
> 'unknown' is the output from uname -p, host processor type.  That field
> is not supported in the Linux kernel.  uname.c in sh-utils has this
> 
> #if defined (HAVE_SYSINFO) && defined (SI_ARCHITECTURE)
>   if (sysinfo (SI_ARCHITECTURE, processor, sizeof (processor)) == -1)
>     error (1, errno, _("cannot get processor type"));
> #else
>   strcpy (processor, "unknown");
> #endif
> 
> HAVE_SYSINFO is always false in sh-utils and SI_ARCHITECTURE is not
> defined in glibc so you always get unknown.
> 
>