Timeline for Meaning of hardware platform in uname command ouput
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 5:30 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Not with the usual uname on Linux... (But yes, there's nothing preventing a specific system having its own uname.) | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 5:26 | comment | added | Dan Cornilescu | Maybe on stock linux, but on embedded systems customisations might touch that area as well. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 5:11 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | On Linux, uname -i is always unknown, so it can't be used to differentiate between kernel modules. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 5:06 | vote | accept | Lavya | ||
| Jun 12, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | Lavya | thanks! somehow my system (fedora 20) doesn't show these in theo output of info uname. I'll try to find the source of uname implementation to see where the program gets these information from. That will make it more clear. | |
| Jun 11, 2015 at 15:23 | history | answered | Dan Cornilescu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |