From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:59:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p549F5309.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.159.83.9]:37217 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133470AbVLUS7E (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:59:04 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBLJ0EYj014806 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:14 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jBLJ0E2A014805 for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:14 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:14 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" Subject: Re: does someone succeed in making the toolchain for 2.6 kernel? Message-ID: <20051221190014.GA1918@linux-mips.org> References: <50c9a2250512210051q85f813fx27b0533fe66165e2@mail.gmail.com> <1135155432.9009.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <50c9a2250512210106h7bca5c7fu5714ea3aa16cde8a@mail.gmail.com> <20051221092207.GU13985@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221092207.GU13985@lug-owl.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9713 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 17:06:36 +0800, zhuzhenhua wrote: > > i am not sure which toolchain can work for the 2.6 kernel > > can you suggest one? > > That's a hard question... 2.95.x compilers used to work and were quite > fast, but newer GCC's features are incorporated into the kernel > sources so it probably will no longer work. There are still users building the kernel with gcc 2.95 and 2.96 successfully. Ralf