On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 19:07 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > Noticed that 8.16 patch has not been committed, want to suggest an > updated one that gets all arches. Been using this for a while, taken > directly from Gentoo, about 2/3 of the way through a gnome desktop with > no ill affects. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/coreutils-8.14-uname-2.patch
I've got a sense of deja vu here, DJ! Did we not discuss this recently? I can't seem to find anything in the archives or Trac history though. > This is from two different machines: > > Old patch (not on x86_64) > dj [ coreutils ]$ uname -a > Linux name64 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 11 21:01:44 CDT 2011 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > New patch: > dj [ /sources ]$ uname -a > Linux name65 3.2.9 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 09:34:15 GMT 2012 x86_64 > AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Something simple, but better IMO. I'd much rather just drop the patch completely, to be honest. It is simply cosmetic, you can get that information from /proc/cpuinfo anyway, and the patch is never going to be accepted upstream in its current form. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
