Author: Richard Danter Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Basic kernel question
2008/10/13 Rob Malpass <lug@???>: > Forgive the ignorance - I'm a bit tired (young child teething these last few
> nights). Trying to work out whether I did install a 64 bit kernel on a box
> I've not played with in months. I've done uname -a and I get 686 as part
> of the returned string - but nothing with x86_64 - that means it's a 32-bit
> kernel right?
Here is what I get from uname -a:
32-bit host: Linux localhost 2.6.21.7-standard #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 13
09:41:47 BST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
64-bit host: Linux localhost 2.6.21.7-standard #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct
14 10:31:05 BST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Isn't there something like LAST_BIT I could check but I can't remember what
> the command is?