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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 08 2020 - 13:41:54 EST



* 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