Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30T18:44:43Z

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

>> try 'make ARCH=i386 oldconfig' - does it work better that way?
>
> Er, we're talking about 64-bit here, aren't we? The log messages are
> from a 64-bit kernel.
>
> Well, it was the wrong config anyway, which I guess is the source of
> this confusion.

yeah.

> (I thought ARCH= to select 32/64 was going away now that the config
> has the bitsize config?)

yep, correct - but it has to be done carefully - until now people (and
tools) could assume that 'make oldconfig' just creates stuff for their
native host architecture. But i agree in principle.

Ingo