Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753159Ab0FDHxp (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 03:53:45 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44766 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752149Ab0FDHxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 03:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C08B105.5050203@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:53:41 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86 References: <20100527154916.GA5585@infradead.org> <20100527184653.GA11830@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20100603133055.GA27797@sepie.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: 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: 1421 Lines: 39 On 4.6.2010 08:23, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Hello Michal and Sam, > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Michal Marek wrote: >> What about always making the prompt visible, so that the previously set >> value gets reused? The downside is that 'make ARCH=i386 menuconfig' in a >> clean tree on x86_64 will default to 64bit, because it will find the >> setting in the config of the running 64bit kernel :(. But after manually >> turning CONFIG_64BIT off, the setting will be preserved. >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig >> index dcb0593..05ec418 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig >> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86" >> >> # Select 32 or 64 bit >> config 64BIT >> - bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" >> + bool "64-bit kernel" >> default ARCH = "x86_64" >> ---help--- >> Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 >> > > This patch works !! Does $ make mrproper $ make ARCH=i386 menuconfig on x86_64 also work for you? Here, it takes CONFIG_64BIT=y from /boot/config-`uname -r`. I see no easy way to solve this atm. Michal -- 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/