Re: [PATCH v1] x86/defconfigs: Unbreak 32-bit defconfig builds

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Sep 08 2020 - 13:51:12 EST


On 9/8/20 5:13 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> After the commit 1d0e12fd3a84 ("x86/defconfigs: Refresh defconfig files")
>> 32-bit builds using defconfig become broken because on x86_64 build host
>> with no ARCH provided the default behaviour is to assume 64-bit independently
>> on the configuration file name. The crucial part is CONFIG_64BIT option
>> that used to be explicit. Let restore the latter option in order to unbreak
>> 32-bit builds.
>
> So exactly which build method broke due to this? The typical way to do a defconfig build is:
>
> make ARCH=i386 defconfig
>
> which still works fine AFAICS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>

Here is a previous patch from someone else:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200810155943.2583275-1-daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx/


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~Randy