From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f355C9J05563 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:12:09 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-109-10.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.10.109]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f355BjM05556 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:11:58 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3558VZ11841; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:08:31 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:08:31 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Matthew Fredrickson Cc: jsc6233@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010405070831.A11613@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010404172906.00a4bce8@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <20010404163747.A22469@frednet.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404163747.A22469@frednet.dyndns.org>; from matt@frednet.dyndns.org on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:37:47PM -0500 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:37:47PM -0500, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > hello, > > Yeah i am trying to compile it while running Irix 6.5. Once i get it all > > working I was going to boot into it. Does that make sense? > > james > > No offense, but not really. Actually, you'll probably need to start > off by setting up the x86-mips cross compilers on an x86 linux machine of > yours and booting the kernel via tftp over the network to get started. I > think most of this is covered in the FAQ on the site. Anyway, I don't > think it's _ever_ been supported to compile up the kernel in IRIX anyway, > so your kind of out of luck for that. You obvious didn't even check. I assure you that I rarely compile a MIPS kernel under Linux so if that works, it's coincidental. Crosscompiling on IRIX works just fine. Ralf