linux/arch
David Woodhouse ffee0de411 x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
It is easy to waste a bunch of time when one takes a 32-bit .config
from a test machine and try to build it on a faster 64-bit system, and
its existing setting of CONFIG_64BIT=n gets *changed* to match the
build host.  Similarly, if one has an existing build tree it is easy
to trash an entire build tree that way.

This is because the default setting for $ARCH when discovered from
'uname' is one of the legacy pre-x86-merge values (i386 or x86_64),
which effectively force the setting of CONFIG_64BIT to match. We should
default to ARCH=x86 instead, finally completing the merge that we
started so long ago.

This patch preserves the behaviour of the legacy ARCH settings for commands
such as:

   make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
   make ARCH=i386 randconfig

... since making the value of CONFIG_64BIT actually random in that situation
is not desirable.

In time, perhaps we can retire this legacy use of the old ARCH= values.
We already have a way to override values for *any* config option, using
$KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG, so it could be argued that we don't necessarily need
to keep ARCH={i386,x86_64} around as a special case just for overriding
CONFIG_64BIT.

We'd probably at least want to add a way to override config options from
the command line ('make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig') before we talk about doing
that though.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-12-20 14:37:18 -08:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-11-18 09:13:48 -10:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 3.7 2012-11-30 10:30:34 -08:00
arm64 open*(2) compat fixes (s390, arm64) 2012-12-02 10:46:38 -08:00
avr32 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
c6x c6x: use generic kvm_para.h 2012-11-28 14:33:03 -05:00
cris Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
frv frv: fix the broken preempt 2012-11-02 12:08:25 -04:00
h8300 h8300: add missing L1_CACHE_SHIFT 2012-11-09 06:41:47 +01:00
hexagon Hexagon: Copyright marking changes 2012-10-18 17:07:21 -05:00
ia64 revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
m68k m68k: fix sigset_t accessor functions 2012-11-18 10:32:16 +01:00
microblaze microblaze: rt_sigreturn is too trigger-happy about sigaltstack errors 2012-11-28 21:46:12 -05:00
mips MIPS: Fix endless loop when processing signals for kernel tasks 2012-12-05 19:59:00 +01:00
mn10300 UAPI: Make arch/mn10300/include/uapi/asm/setup.h non-empty 2012-10-17 12:32:35 +01:00
openrisc openrisk: fix altstack switching on sigreturn 2012-11-28 21:46:11 -05:00
parisc [parisc] open(2) compat bug 2012-12-03 11:13:09 -08:00
powerpc powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly 2012-11-26 09:14:16 +11:00
s390 open*(2) compat fixes (s390, arm64) 2012-12-02 10:46:38 -08:00
score score: do_sigaltstack() expects a userland pointer... 2012-11-28 21:46:12 -05:00
sh sh64: fix altstack switching on sigreturn 2012-11-28 21:46:11 -05:00
sparc sparc: Fix piggyback with newer binutils. 2012-12-03 11:24:25 -08:00
tile arch/tile: avoid build warnings from duplicate ELF_R_xxx #defines 2012-10-23 10:22:48 -04:00
um um: get_safe_registers() should be done in flush_thread(), not start_thread() 2012-11-28 21:46:03 -05:00
unicore32 arch/unicore32: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2012-11-09 17:30:10 +08:00
x86 x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT 2012-12-20 14:37:18 -08:00
xtensa xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve() 2012-10-25 15:00:44 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00