Uname problems

[Wes Hardin]

I've found some inconsistencies with GNU uname and Solaris uname, and 
since i'm not familiar with any other UNIX platform, I'll just let you 
know what i've found and you can sort it all out.

From the GNU uname man page:

       -m, --machine
              print the machine hardware name

       -p, --processor
              print the processor type

       -i, --hardware-platform
              print the hardware platform

GNU uname
(from Gentoo GNU/Linux with coreutils 5.2.1 and SPARC64 kernel 2.4.26 on 
an Ultra 60)

mtraining1 ~ # uname --machine
sparc64
mtraining1 ~ # uname --processor
sun4u
mtraining1 ~ # uname --hardware-platform
TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)

GNU uname
(from Solaris 8 with coreutils 5.2 on an Ultra60)

address@hidden $ uname --machine
sun4u
address@hidden $ uname --processor
sparc
address@hidden $ uname --hardware-platform
SUNW,Ultra-60

Solaris uname
(from same machine)
whardin|cds1 <32> uname -m
sun4u
whardin|cds1 <33> uname -p
sparc
whardin|cds1 <34> uname -i
SUNW,Ultra-60


It seems to me that at a minimum, you'd want as many responses to match 
across OSes on the same hardware.  On Solaris, both versions of uname 
return sun4u for uname -m, but on Linux, sun4u is returned by uname -p.

GNU uname on Linux/SPARC64 returns all the right information, but at 
what seems to be the wrong spots.  If I was to do uname -p, I'd expect 
"TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)", not "sun4u".  If I was to do uname -m, 
thats where I'd expect to see "sun4u".  And "sparc64", while a good 
answer for machine type, is trumped by "sun4u".  And uname -i should 
return "sparc64", certainly not "TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)", which 
makes very little sense as a hardware platform.

But maybe I'm just crazy...
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