kernel-devel-i586

[John Poelstra]

Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 02:57 PM Pacific Time:
> John Poelstra wrote:
>> Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 01:41 PM Pacific Time:
>>> John Poelstra wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel
>>>>> you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel,
>>>>> if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong?
>>>
>>> cat /proc/version
>>>
>>> will say SMP for i686 and .. err.. something else... (i586?) for i586 
>>> builds.  And that is coming straight out of the kernel itself.
>>>
>>> Another way:
>>>
>>> modinfo ext3
>>>
>>> should show i686 as part of the vermagic near the end.
> 
>> I think it is a bug: 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233370
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00407.html
> 
> So what were the results of the tests above?  Also try
> 
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n" | grep kernel
> 
> and you might find that one or more of your installed *kernels* is 
> i586... that was an anaconda bug in FC6.  In that case yum installing 
> the i586 kernel-devel is understandable, not a bug.
> 
> -Andy
> 

nope

# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n" | grep kernel 
kernel-2.6.19-i686
kernel-2.6.20-i686