linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:52:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding
 CONFIG_64BIT

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.
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