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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
On 07/30/2011 09:33 AM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>
> well, from my point of view, it do not need to be updated. Your patch
> corrupt SUBARCH's purpose, that is:
>
> # SUBARCH tells the usermode build what the underlying arch is.
>

For klibc integration, we ran into this problem as well: the set of
architectures for the kernel simply isn't the same set as the
architectures for userspace. For the kernel, x86 is an architecture,
for userspace the architectures are x86_64 or i386 and they are
fundamentally different in many, many ways.

The main problem with SUBARCH is that it is ill-defined in the general
case if SUBARCH contains a user space or a kernel space architecture.
In that sense I would much prefer it if was called, say, USERARCH and
was always available. It could even be set by Kconfig (CONFIG_USERARCH?)

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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