On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 09:21 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:58:49 -0000, Rajat Jain said: > > Can someone tell me if the i386 one is to be used when we want to build for a > > 32bit machine and the x86_64 is to be used for 64 bit machine? > > I wouldn't run either one on an actual machine. Defconfigs are *example* > configs, only useful as a template for customizing for actual hardware. It is probably easiest to take the .config file of the latest kernel of the distribution you are using as a starting point. In that case you know that this starting point at least works on your machine. (I remember seeing tutorials that show you how to generate a .config from scratch. I wonder whether anyone actually does that. It should be quite a bit of work for an uncertain outcome. Ie, you might end up trying quite a few configurations before hitting one that works reasonably for your machine.) Hope this helps, Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
