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

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>]

Hello Sam and Américo,

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:37:00AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> Hello Sam,
>>
>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:49:16AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:37:36AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am trying to build 32 bit kernel image on 64-bit machine but after
>> >> > 'make menuconfig' it automatically switches 32-bit to 64-bit.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is this a BUG or did intentionally.
>> >>
>> >> I think it's intentional, but I'm really annoyed by this behaviour.
>> >
>> > The request when we did the merge of 32 and 64 bit was that we
>> > should continue to build 64bit kernels on 64 bit machines.
>> > And likewise for 32bit.
>> > Because this was what the users where used to.
>> >
>> > We could simplify metters by defining new rules.
>> > As you suggest that uname on an intel box always resulted in ARCH=x86.
>> > But then people would complain why a 32 bit kernel is default when
>> > the box is 64 bit.
>> >
>> > Something like this:
>> > [The escape chars align nicely in the patched Makefile]
>> >
>> >        Sam
>> >
>> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> > index ebc8225..e7f97a5 100644
>> > --- a/Makefile
>> > +++ b/Makefile
>> > @@ -161,10 +161,11 @@ export srctree objtree VPATH
>> >  # then ARCH is assigned, getting whatever value it gets normally, and
>> >  # SUBARCH is subsequently ignored.
>> >
>> > -SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
>> > -                                 -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ \
>> > +SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/        \
>> > +                                 -e s/sun4u/sparc64/                    \
>> > +                                 -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/        \
>> >                                  -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/parisc64/parisc/ \
>> > -                                 -e s/ppc.*/powerpc/ -e s/mips.*/mips/ \
>> > +                                 -e s/ppc.*/powerpc/ -e s/mips.*/mips/  \
>> >                                  -e s/sh[234].*/sh/ )
>> >
>> >  # Cross compiling and selecting different set of gcc/bin-utils
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Thanks, this patch fixes the issue. Now 'make menuconfig' is following .config.
>
> If you think this is the right way to do things you can take it up
> with the x86 maintainers.
>
> Although the patch touches only a generic file this is x86 specific.
>

Américo Wang, Do you mind handle this kconfig patch.

Thanks,
--
Jaswinder Singh.