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Where is it documented that these other options > are valid? It seems like this is just expected behavior because these > are not valid values for setting ARCH for x86. At the very least, I > think something like this needs to be acked by the x86 folks. I hardly doubt that it'll ever be without a proper explanation why. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette