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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:22:01 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)
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> 
> I've just built v2.6.24-rc2-409-g9418d5d + your patchset for both amd64 and 
> i386 using Debian's kernel-package and both went without problems.

Thanks for testing!

> One (minor) issue. If I start out with a .config for i386, the first make 
> oldconfig will ask to set 64-BIT:
>     64-bit kernel (64BIT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
> It would be nice if that could be avoided somehow.

I do not see this can be avoided.
The typical response is just to accept the default which is N
so we are safe in most cases anyway because default is 'N'.

	Sam