From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:12:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CE4CCB.9050605@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0601181240090.18424@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
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.
>
Interesting this was brought up today, as Kumba and I were having a
little discussion concerning this yesterday. The thing is that for
certain machines such as ip22 and ip32, booting a ELF64 kernel is
problematic, so people have to make sure they use the vmlinux.32 target.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 12:31 CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-18 12:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-01-18 12:51 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-18 14:10 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-01-18 14:12 ` Stephen P. Becker [this message]
2006-01-18 14:20 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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