Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Sam, On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Thomas - what is way forward here? > > I consider the patch serie ready to be applied and I > leave it to you (x86 guys) to decide the way forward to mainline. > cleanup -> mm -> linus or straight to linus. I'd like to see this merged right away,

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Sam, On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Thomas - what is way forward here? I consider the patch serie ready to be applied and I leave it to you (x86 guys) to decide the way forward to mainline. cleanup - mm - linus or straight to linus. I'd like to see this merged right away, so we

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > I've just built v2.6.24-rc2-409-g9418d5d + your patchset for both amd64 and > i386 using Debian's kernel-package and both went without problems. Thanks for testing! > One (minor) issue. If I start out with a .config for i386, the first make > oldconfig will ask to set 64-BIT: > 64-bit

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 November 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This revised patchset does the followings things: > o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files > o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line > o introdue support for "make ARCH=x86" > o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Thomas - what is way forward here? I consider the patch serie ready to be applied and I leave it to you (x86 guys) to decide the way forward to mainline. cleanup -> mm -> linus or straight to linus. If there is any concerns (from you or others) please let me know so we can get it fixed. And I

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Thomas - what is way forward here? I consider the patch serie ready to be applied and I leave it to you (x86 guys) to decide the way forward to mainline. cleanup - mm - linus or straight to linus. If there is any concerns (from you or others) please let me know so we can get it fixed. And I

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 November 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: This revised patchset does the followings things: o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line o introdue support for make ARCH=x86 o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select between

Re: [PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
I've just built v2.6.24-rc2-409-g9418d5d + your patchset for both amd64 and i386 using Debian's kernel-package and both went without problems. Thanks for testing! One (minor) issue. If I start out with a .config for i386, the first make oldconfig will ask to set 64-BIT: 64-bit

[PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
This revised patchset does the followings things: o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line o introdue support for "make ARCH=x86" o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select between 32/64 for all*targets and otherwise just

[PATCH revised] enable make ARCH=x86 (and stay backward compatible)

2007-11-12 Thread Sam Ravnborg
This revised patchset does the followings things: o unify the i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files o introduce support for K64BIT to set CONFIG_64BIT on command line o introdue support for make ARCH=x86 o degraded ARCH={i386,x86_64} to select between 32/64 for all*targets and otherwise just selecting