> Something actually was changed at some point perhaps?
> On i386, kernelname is dug out of bootinfo and copied
> (in assembler).
>
> On alpha:
>
> p = getenv("kernelname");
> if (p)
> strncpy(kernelname, p, sizeof(kernelname) - 1);
>
>
> Did the loader used to set kernelname as an environment variable?
It should still do it. (The forth code handles this) My only Alpha is
running -stable, and $kernelname is set correctly there (see the output
of 'kenv').
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