Re: [2.6.24 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:00:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >  # Select 32 or 64 bit
> > >  config 64BIT
> > > -	bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
> > > +	bool "64-bit kernel"
> > >  	default ARCH = "x86_64"
> > >  	help
> > >  	  Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64
> > 
> > thx, i've added this to x86.git.
> 
> this broke "make ARCH=i386 randconfig" from working when there's a 
> 64-bit .config present. (it will not properly generate a 32-bit config, 
> but still a 64-bit config)

Does it always generate a 64bit .config or randomly a 32bit or 64bit 
.config?

As far as I see it's the latter.

If the unified x86 architecture should be presented as one 
architecture in kconfig that's expected - and it might even reduce the 
amount of 32bit compile errors that recently occured in the git-x86 
tree...

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

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