[Buildroot] [git commit] arch/Config.in.x86: drop BR2_x86_generic

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:26:28 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  > Dear Peter Korsgaard,
>  > On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 19:51:06 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>  >> commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=80e406090893ab5a7b5d78e4d243d12fca2b22fb
>  >> branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
>  >> 
>  >> The fuzzy generic x86 variant doesn't make much sense in the context of
>  >> Buildroot, and the recent change to use -march instead of -mtune broke it.
> 
>  > No Config.in.legacy handling?
> 
> It is only used in the variant choice, so kconfig will automatically
> change to the default value (586 for i386, nocona for x86-64) and as
> "generic" is not really well defined (see the description in the GCC
> manual) I think that is good enough - But yeah, we should inform the
> user about it using the legacy support.

I agree that the default behavior after the removal of BR2_x86_generic
is sane, but I believe it still makes sense to have Config.in.legacy
handling to warn users about this.

Thomas
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