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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
    On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:55:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
    > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > > I'll always prefer typing:
    > > make ARCH=x86_64 ...
    > > To:
    > > make ARCH=x86 CONFIG_64BIT=y ...
    >
    > You're not building on an x86 box? I always suspected you had some alien
    > technology! Does it run Linux?
    >
    > Why else would you need to specify ARCH=x86 on the latter command line?

    I don't know why Ingo needs ARCH=x86 on the command line, but I
    regularly type "make ARCH=i386" when building 32-bit kernels on a
    64-bit system, and my scripts use "make ARCH=x86_64" when building
    64-bit kernels (just in case I happen to have booted a 32-bit kernel).

    - Ted



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