[Buildroot] [Bug 6404] New: Buildroot's coreutils 'uname -p' reports 'Unknown' on recent ARM kernels

[Martin Banky]

This is a very long running problem that goes back to at least 2005. Google
coreutils uname patch, to see the history of this problem. Uname will
porbably need a different patch to work on ARM kernels.

Regards,
Martin


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>wrote:

> On 01/08/13 06:30, bugzilla at busybox.net wrote:
>
>> Buildroot's coreutils uname(1) command has a special patch applied as
>> part of
>> buildroot.  When you run 'uname -p', it tries to print out extended
>> information
>> about the processor you are running.  It does this by parsing
>> /proc/cpuinfo.
>> I'm not sure of the provenance of this enhancement, but you can read the
>> code
>> in package/coreutils/coreutils-**uname.patch.
>>
>
>  Seems to me that this patch should be dropped since it's a feature patch.
> Martin, you added it and Gustavo acked it in 2010. OK to drop it?
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
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