From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754202AbYE3UbF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 16:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbYE3Uax (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 16:30:53 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2716 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753092AbYE3Uaw (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 16:30:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:39 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message. Message-ID: <20080530203039.GA5119@ucw.cz> References: <20080528165713.GA412@redhat.com> <483DB2D5.8050502@zytor.com> <483DF520.6010602@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html