Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overridingCONFIG_64BIT

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/30/2011 03:34 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 18:24 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> How do you plan to handle x32, if it ever makes it to mainline ? 
> 
> I was pondering that. Surely it would involve porting the kernel itself
> to x32? And there's never going to be any motivation for that *other*
> than UML, so I can't really see it happening.
> 
> What does 'uname -m' give under x32, anyway?

Right now is gives x86_64, but that should probably be changed before
mainlining.

	-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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