linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/15] x86/kbuild: Introduce the 'x86

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Message-ID: <20250509130438.309220f5@pumpkin>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 13:04:38 +0100
From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@...il.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter
 Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Vitaly Kuznetsov
 <vkuznets@...hat.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, David Woodhouse
 <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
 Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] x86/kbuild: Introduce the 'x86_32'
 subarchitecture

On Wed, 7 May 2025 08:35:05 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

...
> Let's just have x86_32 as the internal primary subarchitecture name, 
> with support for historic aliases like 'i386'. That it cleans up things 
> for defconfig naming is a bonus.

Aren't there 3 variants?
Although the 3rd x32? running ILP32 in 'long mode' isn't used much
(if at all?)

	David