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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
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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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