Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

On Monday 12 November 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
This revised patchset does the followings things:
o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files
o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line
o introdue support for "make ARCH=x86"
o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select between 32/64 for all*targets
and otherwise just selecting the x86 architecture

Based on feedback from previous submissions the following have changed:
- The backwards compatibility links are kept
- The backwards compatibility ARCH={i386,x86_64} are kept but degraded
to select 32/64 bit during configuration for all*config targets.
- ARCH={i386,x86_64} are not broken by any patches so bisect will
not choke

Great! Thanks for being so responsive to comments Sam.

I've just built v2.6.24-rc2-409-g9418d5d + your patchset for both amd64 and
i386 using Debian's kernel-package and both went without problems.

One (minor) issue. If I start out with a .config for i386, the first make
oldconfig will ask to set 64-BIT:
64-bit kernel (64BIT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
It would be nice if that could be avoided somehow.

I'm compiling the 32-bit kernel in an i386 chroot on an x86_64 system.

Cheers,
FJP
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