My workstation is an AMD64 and I want to build a 486 kernel. I've tried oldconfig, menuconfig, and xconfig and they all change the .config from X86_32 to X86_64. How do I stop this behavior?
FWIW, below is a partial diff between the 486 .config and the new config. Thanks. David r...@osage linux # diff -u .config.old .config --- .config.old 2009-04-15 18:47:58.000000000 -0400 +++ .config 2009-06-27 13:26:53.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,18 +1,19 @@ # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit -# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27 -# Wed Apr 15 18:47:58 2009 +# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27.25 +# Sat Jun 27 13:26:53 2009 # -# CONFIG_64BIT is not set -CONFIG_X86_32=y -# CONFIG_X86_64 is not set +CONFIG_64BIT=y +# CONFIG_X86_32 is not set +CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_X86=y -CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG="arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig" +CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG="arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" # CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set ...