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On 07/30/2011 03:17 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 15:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It isn't meaningless for exactly that reason.  For example,
>> "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=i386" and "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=x86_64" both
>> make sense.  Similarly, "make ARCH=um USERARCH=i386" is different from
>> "make ARCH=um USERARCH=x86_64". 
> 
> In that case it's redundant with CONFIG_64BIT, isn't it?

Yes, but some architectures have more than one ABI for a particular bitness.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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