> Thank you all very much for your answers. I think the command
> suggested by MagicFab is the one I am looking for:
>
> lshw -C cpu | grep width

This won't give more information than if the CPU is 32-bit or 64-bit.
And it's not installed by default in Parabola (and doesn't seem
available on mips64el).

For "uname -m":

x86                i?86 unless /proc/cpuinfo has lm in flags
x86-64/amd64       x86_64 or i686 if /proc/cpuinfo has lm in flags
MIPS               mips*
ARM                arm*

(* has the usual meaning of matching any text.)

Wouldn't expect 32-bit systems being common on x86-64 CPUs, this is
useful nearly only for nonfree kernel modules built only for 32-bit x86.

I still don't believe that anyone reporting a non-x86 machine on h-node
wouldn't know what CPU architecture it has (e.g. by choosing the
installation media for it).  (Or is there a free distro supporting
multiple such architectures and being often preinstalled on non-x86
devices?  Ones I know support MIPS and are only on a single device model
From a single seller.)

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