From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763941AbYARR3z (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:29:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932101AbYARR1o (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:27:44 -0500 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:49929 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932091AbYARR1m (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:27:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:26:30 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sam Ravnborg , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig Message-ID: <20080118172630.GD28233@does.not.exist> References: <20080117214301.GA28233@does.not.exist> <20080118104401.GA8785@elte.hu> <20080118170037.GA23297@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080118170037.GA23297@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:00:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Adrian Bunk 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed