Re: uname -m and arch on athlon64

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-04-07, Matthew N Cheely penned:
> I was poking around the other day, and discovered that uname -m and
> /bin/arch both return my machine architecture as i686, despite the
> fact that I'm running an athlon64 system. Shouldn't they return k8?
> Does anybody know what's up here? I'm not really familiar with where
> these commands get their information, although I would suspect perhaps
> from the kernel?
>
> I'm running debian-testing, by the way
>
>

"me, too"

I'm running an Athlon system with a kernel compiled for K7, and uname
shows i686.  This on unstable, rolled my own kernel from debian's
2.4.24-3.

I seem to remember this *not* being the case at some point in the past,
but couldn't say when.

-- 
monique