From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:21:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3483DA.8080305@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312064244.22074.21.camel@i7.infradead.org>
On 07/30/2011 03:17 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 15:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It isn't meaningless for exactly that reason. For example,
>> "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=i386" and "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=x86_64" both
>> make sense. Similarly, "make ARCH=um USERARCH=i386" is different from
>> "make ARCH=um USERARCH=x86_64".
>
> In that case it's redundant with CONFIG_64BIT, isn't it?
Yes, but some architectures have more than one ABI for a particular bitness.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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2011-05-30 20:01 ` [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' Randy Dunlap
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2011-05-30 22:39 ` [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 0:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-31 15:48 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 16:12 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-06-24 13:49 ` Michal Marek
2011-07-29 23:32 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 0:49 ` [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 8:37 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 15:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 15:52 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 16:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 20:58 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-07-30 22:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:34 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 19:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:00 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 20:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:51 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 5:18 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 21:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 21:51 ` Arnaud Lacombe
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