Hi,
Randomly I was looking throught the uname documentation and discovered
the -p and -i switches. On both hurd-i386 and i386 these values are unknown.
However, on sparc this values are defined. Unfortunatly, I think these values
are backwards.
uname -p is supposed to return the processor of the machine.
uname -i is supposed to return the hardware platform.
So, I would expect uname -i to return sun4u on my ultra 5, and uname -p
to return a variation on UltraSparc.
This is the actual output:
jim@squirrel:~ $ uname -p
sun4u
jim@squirrel:~ $ uname -i
TI UltraSparc IIi
Now for the actual question: is this a kernel bug or a bug in coreutils, or
even a bug in my setup?
James A. Morrison