Re: Sub-architectures in update-modules

[Philip Blundell <pb@tazenda.demon.co.uk>]

>There is, as far as I can tell, no central implementation of a `subarch
>name finder'; boot-floppies, anXious, update-modules, kernel-package,
>and so on, all do it individually, their own way.  I don't know whether
>it's worth trying to go one better than that and provide some sort of
>trivial procfs interface for reading subarchitecture names, or have at
>least a central stub script to spit the names out, and stick that in
>base, or something. <shrug>

I don't think this is the kind of thing the kernel ought to get involved in.  
But a central script to look at /proc/cpuinfo and spit out the subarch name 
seems like a good idea.

p.



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