From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:17616 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133618AbWAROJ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:09:57 +0000 Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0IECfWn000487; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:12:41 -0500 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id FAU86636; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:12:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43CE4CCB.9050605@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:12:27 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 References: <20060118123110.GA21786@deprecation.cyrius.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 9966 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: geoman@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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