A little confusing inconsistency

[Adrian Chadd]

It's just some inconsistency in how it's done.


-a


On 20 March 2016 at 06:30, Jukka A. Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Why does sysctl report hw.platform on arm and hw.model on amd64?
> The content is apparently intended to be analogous.
>
> E.g. on RPI2 ...
> hw.platform: bcm2836
>
> and then on amd64 ...
> hw.model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4162 EE
>
> Is this just a little lapsus or intentional for some reason?
> I noticed this when I tried bsdstats on RPI2. It complained
> about missing OID hw.model.
>
> --jau
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