Damn, you're absolutely right. I just tested it using make V=1. kernel make does override CFLAGs from the outside.
But that's interesting: my processor supports -march=core-avx2 and none of the linux kernel processor family uses this flag... Thx Ralf On 04/29/2015 02:41 PM, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > Does the kernel building use the CFLAGS at all? > The arch is set during the configuration step ("Processor type and > features" / "Processor family"), > and there's an "optimize for size" option under "General setup", which > I suppose corresponds to -Os.