On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote: > This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. > It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML > build system what the real architecture is. > > But we actually don't need SUBARCH, we can store this information > in the .config file. Haha, now you have OS_ARCH (shouldn't that be called HOST_ARCH?) instead, which is available only for UM? > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. > Do really need that behavior? This does remove functionality. It allows to build a kernel using e.g. "make ARCH=m68k". Perhaps this can be moved to generic code? Most (not all!) cross-toolchains are called $ARCH-{unknown-,}linux{,-gnu}. Exceptions are e.g. am33_2.0-linux and bfin-uclinux. > [PATCH 1/8] um: Create defconfigs for i386 and x86_64 > [PATCH 3/8] um: Remove old defconfig Why not merge these two, so git copy/rename detection will show only the real changes? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html