Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 11:35:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message. |
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On Thursday 2008-05-29 02:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: >> > uname reports i686 on these chips. The rest is ridiculous. >> >> Intel started it first with picking up a ridiculous number for the family >> ID for the P4 line. There is no technical justification for not keeping >> these numbers consecutive. Or keeping it at 6 actually if the P4 is meant >> to be seen by software as the Pentium Pro and the rest of the P6 gang. > > Yes, this is what we eventually ended up doing as causing fewest compatibility > problems. For the message in question, it's better to be consistent with > uname.
Then again, should not all of the i?86 names be collapsed, much like there is only "sparc" and "sparc64" for the actual sparcv7, sparcv8, sparcv9, sparcv9a pseudo-arches used in, for example rpm, etc.
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