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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:38:46 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in
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On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:27:18 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 09/04/2009 08:33 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>> x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in 'make oldconfig'
> >>
> >> -tip testing found that this commit broke the UML build:
> >>
> >> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile:52:
> >> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86: No such file or directory
> >> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> >> `/home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86'.  Stop.
> >> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> > 
> > Hm, doesn't that mean that UML has always been broken for ARCH=x86?
> > 
> 
> Quite possible.  ARCH=x86 hasn't exactly been widely used.


what does ARCH=x86 mean?

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