Hi, On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, James A Morrison wrote:
> uname -p is supposed to return the processor of the machine. > uname -i is supposed to return the hardware platform. I have an Ultra 5, still trying to get it dualbooting between Solaris 9 and Woody from one IDE disk. As long as no one has a real solution, I currently netboot Debian with parameter root=/dev/hda4 :) > 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: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -p > sun4u > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -i > TI UltraSparc IIi I do not even get uname -i on Debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -p unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -i uname: invalid option -- i Try `uname --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -m sparc64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux cruithne 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknown FYI, Solaris 9 is also not very clear on this. Taken from the Solaris 9 manpage, whose uname has the same options as uname on Linux i386, the -i is for 'hardware implementation (platform)' and -m is the 'machine hardware name'. Use of 'uname -m' is discouraged, however, as well as 'arch -k' is. The uname manpage advises to use uname -p instead. On my Ultra5, Solaris 9: bash-2.05$ uname -p sparc bash-2.05$ uname -i SUNW,Ultra-5_10 bash-2.05$ uname -m sun4u bash-2.05$ arch -k sun4u The other uname options do what I expect, both under Linux and Solaris. Pieter-Paul
