linux-kernel - Re: missing asm-x86

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:29:34 -0800
From:	"Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
To:	"Reinaldo Carvalho" <reinaldow@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: missing asm-x86_64 detection

On 1/31/08, Reinaldo Carvalho <reinaldow@...il.com> wrote:
> :/# uname -a
> Linux devil 2.6.22.16-amd64 #15 SMP Sat Jan 19 13:58:02 BRT 2008
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> :/# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.22
> :/# patch -p1 -R < ../patch-2.6.22.16
> :/# patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.23
> :/# patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.24
> :/# cd /usr/src/ ; mv linux-2.6.22 linux-2.6.24; cd linux-2.6.24
> :/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# make oldconfig
> :/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# make all
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
> ERROR: the symlink include/asm points to asm-x86_64 but asm-x86 was expected
>        set ARCH or save .config and run 'make mrproper' to fix it
> make: ** [include/asm] Erro 1
>
> :/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# cp .config ../config-2.6.24
> :/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# make mrproper
>   CLEAN   scripts/basic
>   CLEAN   scripts/genksyms
>   CLEAN   scripts/kconfig
>   CLEAN   scripts/mod
>   CLEAN   scripts
>   CLEAN   include/config
>   CLEAN   .config .config.old include/asm .version
> include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h
> include/linux/utsrelease.h Module.symvers
> devil:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# cp ../config-2.6.24 .config
> devil:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# make oldconfig
> devil:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24# make all
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   UPD     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   UPD     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>   GEN     include/asm-x86/asm-offsets.h
> ...
>
> system is x86_64!

And your point? The archs are being merged into just x86 (instead of
x86_32 and x86_64 being separate). That's why the asm-x86_64 symlink
was complained about above.

There is no error. Check your config that CONFIG_64BIT and
CONFIG_X86_64 are set.

Thanks,
Nish
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