Re: [PATCH 2/8] um: Do not use SUBARCH

Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-26T13:26:06Z

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> I told you already that "make defconfig ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86" will spuriously
>>> create a x86_64 config on x86_64.
>>> This breaks existing setups.
>>
>> I'll fix this and resubmit soon.
>
> Wait a minute. You're now arguing about whether the generic "x86"
> means i386 or x86_64. Its meaning is already defined in
> arch/x86/Kconfig and arch/x86/um/Kconfig: see the config 64BIT. Unless
> i386 is explicitly specified, the default is to build a 64-bit kernel.
> That is already defined for a normal Linux kernel, and user-mode Linux
> should not break that convention. So, in the example you pulled out of
> your hat:
>
> $ make defconfig ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86
>
> the user should expect a 64-bit build, and not an i386 build as you
> say. Both my patches are correct, and the "regression" that you
> pointed out is a red herring.

Sorry for chiming in, but... what about cross compiling?
SUBARCH=x86 should give you a 32-bit ia32 kernel, right?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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