Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:39 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message. |
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On Thu 2008-05-29 11:35:08, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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.
They should, but it is too late for that now.
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