Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:45:55 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:22:27PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > > # Select 32 or 64 bit > > config 64BIT > > - bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" > > + bool "64-bit kernel" > > default ARCH = "x86_64" > > NACK. You have just broken: > > make ARCH=i386 randconfig > > on a 64-bit box that has a 32-bit .config in its kernel directory. > > The randconfig/allyesconfig/allnoconfig variants override whatever is in > the current .config. Making the result depend on whatever is in the > .config at the moment is fundamentally wrong. > > "oldconfig" on the other hand has correct sensitivity to the existing > .config - and that always worked correctly. So if you pop a 32-bit or a > 64-bit .config into a kernel tree, that will be listened to, no matter > whether you are on a 32-bit or on a 64-bit host.
Do you have ARCH=x86 set in your environment, the command line or patched into your Makefile when this works for you?
> Ingo
cu Adrian
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