Bart Smaalders wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 07:35:28PM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>
>>> variant.arch              sparc, x86, zos
>> Shouldn't these match up with what uname -p returns?
>>
>> regards
>> john
> 
> Probably so... anyone tried zos :-)?
> 
> Seriously, though, I'm not sure that i386 captures this variant
> fully.

Maybe it should be `uname -m` rather than `uname -p` but then that gives 
sun4v rather than space.  But maybe that is what we want.

However I think what we really want is `isainfo` or maybe `isainfo -n`.

It might even be desireable in some cases to use `isalist` output rather 
than `isainfo`

I think that `uname -p` is far too limiting for variant.arch on x86 but 
`uname -p` is interesting for sparc (because it distinguishes sun4u from 
sun4v etc).

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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