Kernel Images

[Michael R Head]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:14 -0700, Randy Forston wrote:
> 
> It would seem that since the K7 wasn't around when uname was written, I
> expect it looks for certain features and does some timing and if the result
> meets a certain standard, it assumes your cpu is the faster version of the
> intel.

uname gets its information from libc, which gets the information from
the kernel. The Athlon and P2 instruction architectures are essentially
the same (extensions such as SSE, MMX, 3dnow are just that --
extensions), so they are all reported as i686.

mike

> Randy

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