Re: [RFC PATCH] Add CONFIG_BITS to remove the test in arch/x86/Makefile



On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:36:07 +0100 Loic Grenie <loic.grenie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I propose the following patch to arch/x86/Makefile and Kconfig.

Actions:

- Add a BITS variable to Kconfig which takes value 32 or 64 according
to 64BIT.

Linus' suggestion was WORD_SIZE and that is what we have already used in
powerpc.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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