Re: Does the kernel detect arch features when making config?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2008-07-06 18:12, Bradley Hanna wrote:

>Does the kernel detect the specifics of the my computer architecture
>when a defconfig is run?

no.

>It just seems like when I run defconfig the kernel knows to configure
>for a 64 bit system.

only because you run it in a 64 bit environment to begin with.

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