Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752927AbYGGQie (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753623AbYGGQi0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:38:26 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:48070 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753531AbYGGQiZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:38:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:38:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Bradley Hanna cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does the kernel detect arch features when making config? In-Reply-To: <4870EEE2.6060700@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4870EEE2.6060700@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 555 Lines: 17 On Sunday 2008-07-06 18:12, Bradley Hanna wrote: >Does the kernel detect the specifics of the my computer architecture >when a defconfig is run? no. >It just seems like when I run defconfig the kernel knows to configure >for a 64 bit system. only because you run it in a 64 bit environment to begin with. -- 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/