linux-kernel - Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86

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Message-ID: <20100527161347.GA5005@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 12:13:47 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@...d.de>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 06:11:34PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> Just use ARCH=x86. That ARCH respects CONFIG_64BIT from .config and 
> "CONFIG_64BIT" is a config-option (the very first in menuconfig)

Which is an obsolute pain to type, even worse than doing a linux32 call
first.  Really, a simple

	make

should default to do the right thing.

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