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From: Sergey Matyukevich <Sergey_Matyukevich@mentor.com>
To: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] map_kernel_arch: x86 sub-architectures
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:05:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516EAC25.40109@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkTA4Mrw50x2SXjwpug9QA-VgwpQZrAH6OpbU-F+SB2-G0uPw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

>> Suppose we build software for x86 targets on x86 build hosts. There are use-cases
>> when it is not enough to specify x86 as a kernel architecture. It is necessary
>
> What are the details of the use cases ? I've never run into this myself, and
> almost no parts of the kernel build infrastructure differentiates between
> x86 and x86_64 .. so I'm curious to know what is breaking.

So far we observed this problem in two cases:
- build systemtap modules for x86_32 target on x86_64 build hosts
- build virtualbox-guest modules for x86_32 target on x86_64 build hosts

Sergey



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-17 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-17 12:10 [PATCH] map_kernel_arch: x86 sub-architectures Sergey Matyukevich
2013-04-17 13:52 ` Bruce Ashfield
2013-04-17 14:05   ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2013-04-17 14:24     ` Bruce Ashfield
2013-04-18 12:34       ` Sergey Matyukevich

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