Re: Compile Question

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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Rohit Sharma <imreckless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Linux supports many architectures for its portability.
>> So architecture specific codes resides in arch directory.
> Ya i know that but there should not be an x86_64 directory just the
> x86 one...these were combined some time ago.
>

On my (32-bit) machine, the kernel also still creates an i386
directory, but it only contains links for bzImage towards the x86
directory. My guess is this is to retain compatibility, e.g. with
existing scripts.

Thomas

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