Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86"

Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10T08:23:56Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Keeping ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 around is just a way to pretend
> this is two diffrent architectures which is no longer the case.

They _are_ different in the real world... that's why

make ARCH=i386

is so often used.

> Do we need a way to say "build a kernel that is 64 bit"?
> If we need this then we should look at the most intuitive way
> to say so and this should work across x86, powerpc and s390.
>
> make 64BIT=y ARCH=x86
>
> looks so much more intuitive. And it is generic.
> This is just a proposal.

Or the short and straightforward

make ARCH=x86_64

to do the same thing (and incidentally what we've been doing up until
this point).

Don't get so hung up on "architecture" and actually look at what people
do _today_.

All other solutions proposed are simply _longer_ ways to do exact the
same thing. "more work for same outcome" isn't optimal.

Jeff