[ubuntu-uk] uname -a for 32 bit os on 64 bit cpu

[Colin Law]

2011/11/14 Juan J. <reidrac at usebox.net>:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:05 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 14 November 2011 21:55, John Levin <technolalia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> > Thanks to everyone who replied. Does seem that uname reports the kernel, and
>> > not the hardware, which is what is suggested by the man page and
>> > http://ss64.com/bash/uname.html
>>
>> This has caused confusion to others, there was a long thread which
>> involved such confusions on Ubuntu Users mailing list recently.
>> Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug to get the man page clarified.
>> I suppose you could even file a patch with better wording, but I don't
>> know go about that.
>
> TL;DR: it doesn't matter what is your hardware, the important it's which
> kernel are your running.

It does matter what the hardware is if you want to know whether you
*could* run the 64 bit kernel.

Colin