Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for64-bit Xen support

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> try 'make ARCH=i386 oldconfig' - does it work better that way?
>
> Er, we're talking about 64-bit here, aren't we?  The log messages are 
> from a 64-bit kernel.
>
> Well, it was the wrong config anyway, which I guess is the source of 
> this confusion.

yeah.

> (I thought ARCH= to select 32/64 was going away now that the config 
> has the bitsize config?)

yep, correct - but it has to be done carefully - until now people (and 
tools) could assume that 'make oldconfig' just creates stuff for their 
native host architecture. But i agree in principle.

	Ingo
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