How to verify the running kernel's architecture?
Akemi Yagi
amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 15:48:05 UTC 2007
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:34:20 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> People,
>
> How do I know if the kernel I'm running is the i586 or i686 version?
> uname -m is not useful in this case, because it shows me the machine
> architecture (which I know is i686), not the architecture for which the
> running kernel was compiled. It always shows i686, even if the running kernel
> is i586.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
How about:
rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
provided you have used rpm to install kernel.
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