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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 58084139c..6f62f6dbc 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -15605,8 +15605,8 @@ and the hardware platform name if they are unknown.
@cindex platform, hardware
Print the hardware platform name
(sometimes called the hardware implementation).
-Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information
-easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels.
+Print @samp{unknown} if this information is not available.
+Note this is non-portable (even across GNU/Linux distributions).
@item -m
@itemx --machine
@@ -15634,8 +15634,8 @@ 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
-easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels.
+Print @samp{unknown} if this information is not available.
+Note this is non-portable (even across GNU/Linux distributions).
@item -o
@itemx --operating-system