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Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:23:29 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: uname and Athlons [PATCH]
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:54:01 +0100
> > From: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> >
> > Below is a patch that makes uname detect Athlons and return
> > the machine type as 'athlon'.
> 
> If we are going to support this, then please consider reusing some of
> the code I wrote for GDB to get a much finer details about the CPU
> make and type.  It's in go32-nat.c:go32_sysinfo.

Do we actually need to make all those distinctions? I was thinking that we
should just distinguish the processors in the same way the config.sub does.

GDB is licensed under the GNU GPL. Presumably we could use your code, because
the FSF has licensed it back to you as part of the copyright assignment
process?

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]