On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 16:48, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 09:51:13PM +0000, Mark Fortescue wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Silly question. If ARCH=sparc is not 64bit then how do you make a 32bit
>> sparc kernel?
>
> make arch=sparc menuconfig give you the option to select
> if the kernel is 64 bit or not.
>
> And this "64 bit?" option is what is causing us troubles for the
> all*config targets.
> allyesconfig and allmodconfig will both set this option to 'y'
> so we cannot in any simple way generate a 32bit all{yes,mod}config.
Why not have a sparc32 arch also, which would force 64bit to false. So:
1. If we detect a 32 bit sparc, we select sparc32.
2. If we detect a 64 bit sparc, we select sparc64.
3. Otherwise we select sparc and let the user decide.
I believe that powerpc also works in this manner, as does x86.
Thanks,
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