From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:49:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mipsfw.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.146]:53020 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133598AbWARMs6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:48:58 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0ICpSlV022936; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:51:28 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k0ICpR1L022935; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:51:27 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:51:27 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 Message-ID: <20060118125127.GA3555@linux-mips.org> References: <20060118123110.GA21786@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9961 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:42:25PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Is there a good reason why CONFIG_64BIT does not activate > > CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 automatically? > > It works with some old toolchains and apparently there are people who > want this feature. Please feel free to propose a patch to add such a > dependency and see if there are any objections. At this stage support for gcc 2.95 is decaying and soon may be removed entirely from the kernel. So the time to hardwire CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64=y may have come. Ralf