[virt-tools-list] [virt-what PATCH] Determine architecture via 'uname -m'

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:11:36PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> 'uname -p' only gives unknown on x86_64, i386, arm6l (rpi) and aarch64
> (scaleways).
> ---
> It doesn't matter that much these days since cpuid is used most of the
> time but it's better to have this fixed (or remove the whole uname based
> code).
> 
>  virt-what.in | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt-what.in b/virt-what.in
> index 29b7b0d..2011ff4 100644
> --- a/virt-what.in
> +++ b/virt-what.in
> @@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ cpuid=$(virt-what-cpuid-helper)
>  dmi=$(LANG=C dmidecode 2>&1)
>  
>  # Architecture.
> -# Note for the purpose of testing, we only call uname with -p option.
> +# Note for the purpose of testing, we only call uname with -m option.
>  
> -arch=$(uname -p | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' | sed -e 's/arm.*/arm/')
> +arch=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' | sed -e 's/arm.*/arm/')
>  
>  # Check for VMware.
>  # cpuid check added by Chetan Loke.

Thanks - pushed.

Rich.

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