From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751860Ab2L0BwY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:52:24 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:53505 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116Ab2L0BwX (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:52:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:52:20 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: David Woodhouse cc: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , 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 In-Reply-To: <1356560399.7010.45.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1356511396.7010.13.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1356525527.7010.34.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1356560399.7010.45.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, David Woodhouse wrote: > Thanks. I'll look into this. I presume it was *always* failing, but > nobody happened to come across it because our test coverage of x86 > configs without CONFIG_64BIT wasn't particularly good? > Purely for selfish reasons, 32-bit isn't interesting for me. I'm sure they existed before, as you said, but only got exposed to be because "make randconfig" now allows such configurations. I've added ARCH=x86_64 to my scripts.