From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
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
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:13:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50DB8485.8010709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1212261343210.20193@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-26 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-20 21:51 [PATCH] x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT David Woodhouse
2012-12-21 2:07 ` [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2012-12-26 6:32 ` David Rientjes
2012-12-26 8:43 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-26 10:44 ` David Rientjes
2012-12-26 12:38 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-26 22:00 ` David Rientjes
2012-12-26 22:19 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-27 1:52 ` David Rientjes
2012-12-27 8:01 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-26 22:30 ` Jesper Juhl
2012-12-26 23:07 ` David Woodhouse
2012-12-26 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-12-26 23:32 ` [tip] config: Add 'make kvmconfig' David Woodhouse
2012-12-27 1:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-02-04 18:20 ` [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig David Rientjes
2013-02-04 18:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-04 18:57 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-04 19:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-04 19:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-02-04 19:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-06 18:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-06 20:12 ` David Rientjes
2013-02-06 20:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-06 21:02 ` kvmtool tree (Was: Re: [patch] config: fix make kvmconfig) Stephen Rothwell
2013-02-06 21:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-06 21:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-07 21:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-02-07 21:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-02-08 14:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-08 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-08 23:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-09 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-09 10:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-09 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-09 19:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-09 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-09 21:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-11 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-11 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-11 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-11 13:18 ` David Woodhouse
2013-02-11 13:58 ` Anca Emanuel
2013-02-11 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-11 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-11 17:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-11 14:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-11 16:46 ` David Woodhouse
2013-02-11 17:26 ` Anca Emanuel
2013-02-11 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-11 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <CA+55aFx-0-qcYMqH2wnJJ7iAPhoEvD_EQ0xqVW3VGS3G9=_1_w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-02-11 17:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-11 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-12 9:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-13 8:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 8:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-02-13 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-14 15:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-02-19 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-12 17:06 ` [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT Borislav Petkov
2013-01-12 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-12 18:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-12 18:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-12 16:01 ` [PATCH] x86: Default to ARCH=x86 " richard -rw- weinberger
2013-04-12 16:38 ` David Woodhouse
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