Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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). >
It's not clear to me that sun4u and sun4v are actually variants; eg that they conflict in the filesystem. I'd certainly like to be able to construct images that boot either sun4u or sun4v. =- Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
