kernel-devel-i586

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Wed Mar 21 21:26:05 UTC 2007


Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 01:41 PM Pacific Time:
> 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
> 

I think it is a bug: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233370

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00407.html




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