Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758706AbYGFQL1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:11:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757247AbYGFQLU (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:11:20 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.232]:3753 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756633AbYGFQLT (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:11:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hzeZHDCxpfMe6FFOqVPAnqm/8Pv73I/Bm8Fb0rwb+UtsFdGd+W3m+LZWMphJm+zhVa jcQssb5FNpoIa8rEd2VKKEsHlyVyVYaJAtUECXK36m03LFonaCiq/awQvU76HT0IvlKy ksxb/P0AgBkGfn/jrwJHORUCszSs2ZiG41s0w= Message-ID: <4870EEE2.6060700@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:12:18 -0400 From: Bradley Hanna User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Does the kernel detect arch features when making config? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 526 Lines: 16 Does the kernel detect the specifics of the my computer architecture when a defconfig is run? It just seems like when I run defconfig the kernel knows to configure for a 64 bit system. What others factor could cause me to make this assumption? thanks for your patience, brahan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/