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@@ -12225,6 +12225,8 @@ Print all of the below information.
@cindex platform, hardware
Print the hardware platform name
(sometimes called the hardware implementation).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -m
@itemx --machine
@@ -12252,6 +12254,8 @@ Print the network node hostname.
@cindex host processor type
Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
architecture or ISA).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -o
@itemx --operating-system