variant or platform

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:03, Yves de Champlain wrote:

>>> Mmm i386 is for intel, sure.  But x86 targets a wider set of  
>>> platforms (intel and AMD).  So I always saw i386 as a subset of x86.
>>>
>>> Am I far off ?
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>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 00:26, Yves de Champlain wrote:
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>>> I just saw "platform intel"  Does that really work ?
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>> I really have no idea about "x86" or "platform intel". Where is  
>> the code in base that autoselects platforms? We could look there  
>> to see what it supports.
>
> it fetches uname, so whatever comes out is good

Ah. Well, uname -a shows i386 on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, but I  
don't know what it outputs on all other operating systems on all  
other computers. So what do we do now?