Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT

From: Arnaud Lacombe
Date: Sat Jul 30 2011 - 18:24:21 EST


Hi,

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:17 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 15:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It isn't meaningless for exactly that reason.  For example,
>> "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=i386" and "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=x86_64" both
>> make sense.  Similarly, "make ARCH=um USERARCH=i386" is different from
>> "make ARCH=um USERARCH=x86_64".
>
> In that case it's redundant with CONFIG_64BIT, isn't it?
>
How do you plan to handle x32, if it ever makes it to mainline ?

- Arnaud
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