Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934316AbZIDVlc (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:41:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933966AbZIDVla (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:41:30 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:40615 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933850AbZIDVl3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:41:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in 'make oldconfig' From: David Woodhouse To: Randy Dunlap Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, sam@ravnborg.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090904093846.a87bd198.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20090904144857.GA12872@elte.hu> <4AA13FE6.20807@zytor.com> <20090904093846.a87bd198.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:40:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1252100456.4483.544.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:38 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > what does ARCH=x86 mean? A bit like ARCH=powerpc. It's the new combined architecture where 64-bit vs. 32-bit is just a config choice. ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 are just historical baggage, and should be dropped like ARCH=ppc and ARCH=ppc64 were. -- dwmw2 -- 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/