From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 18:30:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 312031065674 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:30:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy8.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8AD18FC14 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21276 invoked by uid 0); 2 Feb 2012 18:30:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2012 18:30:54 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=J/eJvYL4gYDoot9yXFLqTcYwoyPRK3C+qZn1AEKsdy0=; b=fdq7kkaUuljQSB3+YSEovnchagxK5m9gmx1gtL7RXveY2q/1jsnEoQFCoSABQoWFSzH+6K5/1cF6YbjzQJ+fjfYj84AzzPFO6WW/M5L7pDQ1RieO5kLJ/v+magKfuhlT; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt1Qq-0001BD-Og for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:30:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:30:51 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120202183051.GA25323@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: uname ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:30:55 -0000 On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:09:00PM +0800, joeb1 wrote: > It looks to me that the uname -m and uname -p always have the same > value, such as "i386". > > Is there some fine-grained difference or some un-documented difference > between them > or some combination were the values would be different? I don't have one handy, so I don't have any way to test this right now, but I wonder if an AMD machine might give a different answer to one of those than an Intel machine, given a 32-bit 386 instruction set processor for both. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]