On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:53:20PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Sunday 20 March 2005 16:03, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > > 1) how the user must choose what he wants (SUBARCH=i386 can be useful, > > > maybe a Kconfig option would be nice - we need to choose the default > > > depending on the host arch). > > > > That one is easy -- just use "linux32 make ...". That will switch the > > personality and "uname" will return "i686" instead of "x86_64" then ;) > linux32 is a SuSE specific alias like the "i386" for Fedora, right (they both > alias setarch, IIRC)?
Don't have a "setarch" binary here. But most likely they do almost the same, yes. > > Not needed I think. Thats used for kconfig and other stuff which runs > > on the _host_ machine (for cross compiles), thus it doesn't hurt if it > > is 64 bit. > I'm not sure, but that's probably needed for the userspace utilities that > print out some headers (with offsets inside host proc. specific structs). Uhm, ok, then it probably is needed. This also means that you can't cross-compile uml kernels, right? Gerd -- #define printk(args...) fprintf(stderr, ## args) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows Mobile Application Contest Submit applications for Windows Mobile(tm)-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones for the chance to win $25,000 and application distribution. Enter today at http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6882&alloc_id=15148&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
