Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:23:32 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/11 v3] enable "make ARCH=x86" |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Keeping ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 around is just a way to pretend > this is two diffrent architectures which is no longer the case.
They _are_ different in the real world... that's why
make ARCH=i386
is so often used.
> Do we need a way to say "build a kernel that is 64 bit"? > If we need this then we should look at the most intuitive way > to say so and this should work across x86, powerpc and s390. > > make 64BIT=y ARCH=x86 > > looks so much more intuitive. And it is generic. > This is just a proposal.
Or the short and straightforward
make ARCH=x86_64
to do the same thing (and incidentally what we've been doing up until this point).
Don't get so hung up on "architecture" and actually look at what people do _today_.
All other solutions proposed are simply _longer_ ways to do exact the same thing. "more work for same outcome" isn't optimal.
Jeff
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