From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751512Ab2LZXNn (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:13:43 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50572 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983Ab2LZXNk (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:13:40 -0500 Message-ID: <50DB8485.8010709@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:13:09 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Rientjes CC: David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , tglx@linutronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT References: <1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1356511396.7010.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1356525527.7010.34.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/26/2012 02:00 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > In the past, "make randconfig" would always generate a > kernel that _should_ boot on that machine unless there was an underlying > bug that should be fixed. > Not even remotely true. There are tons of options which may not be set that your machine needs, or you might set options that exclude support for your CPU, for example. Seriously, this is a bad joke. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.