Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 01:04:49 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? Message-ID: <20120808010449.269b4e8b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20120807232633.9ca51ca6.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208070941260.4007@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <201208071914.q77JEUKq022088@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120807232633.9ca51ca6.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:26:33 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:14:30 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 7 02:44:36 2012 > > > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:41 +0200 (CEST) > > > From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > > To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> > > > Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? > > > > > > >> That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC > > > > > > > > Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit > > > > distribution on your > > > > > > nonsense. 64-bit distribution doesn't run on 32-bit computer. > > > > *PRECISELY* why the OP is having problems. He _is_ trying to > > build amd64 kernel on 34-bit only processor. > > > > Unlike "Wojciech the infallible" people _do_ get things wrong on > > occasion. > > That's why the statement "you may have installed the 64-bit > distribution" Wojciech refered to as "nonsense": On a 32 bit > system, the 64 bis OS version should not run. So the OP seems > to be using the (correct!) 32 bit OS version, but trying to > compile the 64 bit kernel (from /sys/amd64/conf instead of > from /sys/i386/conf). Therefore, it's a matter of having > chosen the wrong kernel config, not the wrong OS version. :-) The architecture isn't defined in GENERIC, it defaults to what's already installed. You have to explicitly set it to cross-build, and I find it hard to believe that someone would set TARGET/TARGET_ARCH to amd64 by mistake I think it's likely that it is a 64-bit installation.
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