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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:52:33 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] minnowboard_max_defconfig,
 changes to build for 32-bit, fails in the end when installing grub
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Hello,

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:47:57 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:

> Thanks for the hints. Since I changed "Target Architecture" to i386 in
> menuconfig, I see the grub2 platform has also changed to "i386-pc"
> automatically, but the built modules
> (BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_BUILTIN_MODULES) remains unchanged, and that
> explains the build error. Is this a limitation of Kconfig that it
> cannot switch BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_BUILTIN_MODULES automatically?

Yes.

> I did further testing by switching "Target Architecture" back to
> x86-64, and I saw grub2 platform did not change to the EFI stuff and
> remained as "i386-pc".

Yes, welcome to Kconfig :)

Best regards,

Thomas
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