uname Output

[Net Llama!]

On 01/16/2005 07:11 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

I think its pulled from /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/version

> 
> 
>>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

uname -a
Linux hal 2.6.10 #2 Thu Dec 30 16:49:42 PST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

  cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 2083.215
cache size      : 512 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 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 4087.80

Definitely works on my box.  Did you have this problem before 2.6.10 ?


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