Re: CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [2006-01-18 12:51]:
> 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.

[mips] Enable BUILD_ELF64 when 64BIT is set

New toolchain does not support building 32-bit ELF objects with 64-bit
code, so we enable BUILD_ELF64 when 64bit is on.

Ralf Baechle: "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."

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

---
 Kconfig |   12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- linux-mips/arch/mips/Kconfig	2006-01-10 11:21:15.000000000 +0000
+++ new/arch/mips/Kconfig	2006-01-18 14:07:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -1722,17 +1722,7 @@
 config BUILD_ELF64
 	bool "Use 64-bit ELF format for building"
 	depends on 64BIT
-	help
-	  A 64-bit kernel is usually built using the 64-bit ELF binary object
-	  format as it's one that allows arbitrary 64-bit constructs.  For
-	  kernels that are loaded within the KSEG compatibility segments the
-	  32-bit ELF format can optionally be used resulting in a somewhat
-	  smaller binary, but this option is not explicitly supported by the
-	  toolchain and since binutils 2.14 it does not even work at all.
-
-	  Say Y to use the 64-bit format or N to use the 32-bit one.
-
-	  If unsure say Y.
+	default y
 
 config BINFMT_IRIX
 	bool "Include IRIX binary compatibility"

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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/