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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:40:17 -0500
From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] powerpc: proper defconfig for crosscompiles
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:21:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The trick for finding the right defconfig is neat, but you forgot to 
> provide an i686_defconfig.  ;-)
> 
> More seriously, cross compiling the defconfig is often useful, e.g. for 
> testing the compilation of patches that touch multiple architectures, 
> and this patch therefore chooses g5_defconfig if $(CROSS_COMPILE) is 
> non-empty.

You should probably use ppc64_defconfig instead, since it's the "superset"
config that will compile a multiplatform kernel.


-Olof