Re: CONFIG_64BIT and CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64

["Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> > Is there a good reason why CONFIG_64BIT does not activate
> > CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 automatically?
>  It works with some old toolchains and apparently there are people who 
> want this feature.  Please feel free to propose a patch to add such a 
> dependency and see if there are any objections.
Interesting this was brought up today, as Kumba and I were having a 
little discussion concerning this yesterday.  The thing is that for 
certain machines such as ip22 and ip32, booting a ELF64 kernel is 
problematic, so people have to make sure they use the vmlinux.32 target.
-Steve