kernel-devel-i586

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Wed Mar 21 20:41:07 UTC 2007


John Poelstra wrote:

>> I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel
>> you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel,
>> if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong?

cat /proc/version

will say SMP for i686 and .. err.. something else... (i586?) for i586 
builds.  And that is coming straight out of the kernel itself.

Another way:

modinfo ext3

should show i686 as part of the vermagic near the end.

-Andy




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