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	x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
It is easy to waste a bunch of time when one takes a 32-bit .config
from a test machine and try to build it on a faster 64-bit system, and
its existing setting of CONFIG_64BIT=n gets *changed* to match the
build host.  Similarly, if one has an existing build tree it is easy
to trash an entire build tree that way.
This is because the default setting for $ARCH when discovered from
'uname' is one of the legacy pre-x86-merge values (i386 or x86_64),
which effectively force the setting of CONFIG_64BIT to match. We should
default to ARCH=x86 instead, finally completing the merge that we
started so long ago.
This patch preserves the behaviour of the legacy ARCH settings for commands
such as:
   make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
   make ARCH=i386 randconfig
... since making the value of CONFIG_64BIT actually random in that situation
is not desirable.
In time, perhaps we can retire this legacy use of the old ARCH= values.
We already have a way to override values for *any* config option, using
$KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG, so it could be argued that we don't necessarily need
to keep ARCH={i386,x86_64} around as a special case just for overriding
CONFIG_64BIT.
We'd probably at least want to add a way to override config options from
the command line ('make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig') before we talk about doing
that though.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
			
			
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							|  | @ -165,7 +165,8 @@ export srctree objtree VPATH | |||
| # then ARCH is assigned, getting whatever value it gets normally, and 
 | ||||
| # SUBARCH is subsequently ignored.
 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
 | ||||
| SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
 | ||||
| 				  -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
 | ||||
| 				  -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ \
 | ||||
| 				  -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/parisc64/parisc/ \
 | ||||
| 				  -e s/ppc.*/powerpc/ -e s/mips.*/mips/ \
 | ||||
|  |  | |||
|  | @ -1,7 +1,7 @@ | |||
| # Select 32 or 64 bit | ||||
| config 64BIT | ||||
| 	bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86" | ||||
| 	default ARCH = "x86_64" | ||||
| 	default ARCH != "i386" | ||||
| 	---help--- | ||||
| 	  Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64 | ||||
| 	  Say no to build a 32-bit kernel - formerly known as i386 | ||||
|  |  | |||
|  | @ -2,7 +2,11 @@ | |||
| 
 | ||||
| # select defconfig based on actual architecture
 | ||||
| ifeq ($(ARCH),x86) | ||||
|   ifeq ($(shell uname -m),x86_64) | ||||
|         KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := x86_64_defconfig | ||||
|   else | ||||
|         KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := i386_defconfig | ||||
|   endif | ||||
| else | ||||
|         KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := $(ARCH)_defconfig | ||||
| endif | ||||
|  |  | |||
|  | @ -1,3 +1,4 @@ | |||
| # CONFIG_64BIT is not set | ||||
| CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y | ||||
| # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set | ||||
| CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y | ||||
|  |  | |||
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