uname Output

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:58:40PM -0800, Net Llama! took 30 lines to write:
> On 01/16/2005 06:48 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >So, I execute 'uname -a' and I get the following:
> >
> >$ uname -a
> >Linux luther 2.6.10 #1 Sat Jan 15 01:43:34 EST 2005 i686 unknown unknown 
> >GNU/Linux
> >
> >The two "unknown" fields are for the processor and hardware platform, which
> >_ought_ to be pretty well known. The processor is an AMD Athlon 1200 and
> >the hardware platform is IA32, or whatever Intel is calling their 32-bit
> >x86 systems these days. 
> >
> >How do I get this into my uname string?
> 
> doesn't that stuff get pulled from /proc ? 

Don't know.

> is your CPU getting 
> correctly recognized in /proc/cpuinfo ? 

Yes:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 4
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1320.404
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 2596.86

> was this kernel built on the 
> same box?

Yep.

Kurt
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