Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:51:17 +0100,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> I'd like to send a patch after 2.6.10 that removes the following from 
> arch/x86_64/Kconfig:
> 
>   config X86
>         bool
>         default y
> 
> Additionally, I'll also check all current X86 uses to prevent breakages.
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> X86 is _the_ symbol to identify the i386 architecture, but the x86_64 
> port hijacked it. Kernel-wise, x86_64 is mostly simply a new port like 
> e.g. ia64.

If we do this for x86-64, shouldn't we do the same for ppc64 and sh64,
too?  (only sparc64 seems not defining 32bit config.)


Takashi
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