From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: matthias.bgg@gmail.com (Matthias Brugger) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:06:07 +0200 Subject: x86_64_defconfig and i386_defconfig: What is the difference? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <540F094F.3040904@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 09/09/14 09:58, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me if the i386 one is to be used when we want to build for a 32bit machine and the x86_64 is to be used for 64 bit machine? You can build the kernel with any architecture for any architecture. This is called cross-compiling. The homepage [0] should explain you how to do that. Cheers, Matthias [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/KernelCrossCompilation > > Thanks, > > Rajat > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Brugger Subject: Re: x86_64_defconfig and i386_defconfig: What is the difference? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:06:07 +0200 Message-ID: <540F094F.3040904@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eq6Ab2tGESwjf19uaM3GxjFEPYH60Z5ioOSUVLLYlsI=; b=xjtmLDCQo39Ramjw+aa+C9AxKGpJ9b6gQsZawqUGpXd/GBKmPs9RoyG3z2z/Mr7/5f rvQL6SbR1l1hu8QBQo3cNDyWy/spSRCNuRrgzld5BbjdIh0HawUIaGFvxdBzLcN/uUn+ Z/j9dzOJOzWKA2uOS6Bcg7MXFGZcEBxfHMcyR0lvauYHcRJ00mm9VSR7pnQU3BbnCMGP Q0jb1ADfJ2fHHJewI62+NTYpRh6fq1jSInDyUnIpJUbA0almnJy64syGJJH2h/71CcEA S7lx83FRHEcmXDC8fd6RUwbRn/AI2mkcybWhhA834vtXNgVEuokSXstzsKk4echdZcXp bttg== In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Rajat Jain , "linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org" , kernelnewbies On 09/09/14 09:58, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me if the i386 one is to be used when we want to build for a 32bit machine and the x86_64 is to be used for 64 bit machine? You can build the kernel with any architecture for any architecture. This is called cross-compiling. The homepage [0] should explain you how to do that. Cheers, Matthias [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/KernelCrossCompilation > > Thanks, > > Rajat > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs