Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 18:19:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:31, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:31:23 +0800 Américo Wang wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:39:51AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >> >On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: >> >> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> I am trying to build 32 bit kernel image on 64-bit machine but after >> >>> 'make menuconfig' it automatically switches 32-bit to 64-bit. >> >> >> >> Try 'linux32 make menuconfig' and 'linux32 make'. >> >> >> > >> >Yes, this works :-) >> >> >> I think 'make ARCH=i386 menuconfig' also works. > > Yes, that's what I use. I wasn't familiar with the "linux32 make ..." usage.
Doesn't the linux32 trick run the (possibly slower due to x86 register pressure) 32-bit compiler instead of running the 64-bit compiler in -m32 mode?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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