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

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18T21:07:06Z

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> > > 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.

it inherits the existing .config's arch setting - and that's what people
expect. I use a tree either in 64-bit mode or in 32-bit mode, fully
driven via the .config alone. The Kbuild magic picks up the right arch
variant and it all just works fine.

Ingo