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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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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?

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dwmw2