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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: x86_64_defconfig and i386_defconfig: What is the difference?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:26:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75664.1410272787@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:19:54 +0200." <1410272394.16079.10.camel@x220>

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:19:54 +0200, Paul Bolle said:

> (I remember seeing tutorials that show you how to generate a .config
> from scratch. I wonder whether anyone actually does that.

Distros did that originally.  Now they just keep delta'ing their
known-working config.  The pain involved was part of why localmodconfig
and friends were created....
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09  7:58 x86_64_defconfig and i386_defconfig: What is the difference? Rajat Jain
2014-09-09 13:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-09-09 14:19   ` Paul Bolle
2014-09-09 14:26     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]
2014-09-09 14:06 ` Matthias Brugger
2014-09-09 14:27   ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-09-09 14:34     ` Abreu, Ian
2014-09-09 15:11     ` Rajat Jain
2014-09-09 17:51     ` Rajat Jain
2014-09-13  1:10 ` Peter Teoh
2014-09-13  3:44   ` Rajat Jain

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