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

Adrian Bunk
2008-01-18T17:29:55Z

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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