linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support

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Message-ID: <20080630184404.GA20566@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:44:04 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for
	64-bit Xen support


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

>> try 'make ARCH=i386 oldconfig' - does it work better that way?
>
> Er, we're talking about 64-bit here, aren't we?  The log messages are 
> from a 64-bit kernel.
>
> Well, it was the wrong config anyway, which I guess is the source of 
> this confusion.

yeah.

> (I thought ARCH= to select 32/64 was going away now that the config 
> has the bitsize config?)

yep, correct - but it has to be done carefully - until now people (and 
tools) could assume that 'make oldconfig' just creates stuff for their 
native host architecture. But i agree in principle.

	Ingo
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