From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:30:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:18578 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133923AbWCXWaB (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:30:01 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2OMe6Pl004450; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:40:06 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k2OMe6Pm004449; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:40:06 GMT Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:40:06 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: James E Wilson Cc: dhunjukrishna@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Compilation problem with kernel 2.4.16 Message-ID: <20060324224005.GA4145@linux-mips.org> References: <20060324082842.68469.qmail@web53506.mail.yahoo.com> <1143236139.13187.55.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1143236139.13187.55.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com> 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: 10935 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 Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:35:40PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > You can use the specifix toolchain release to build the linux kernel. > However, you can't use the sb1-elf binaries. These are only for > building embedded applications that run on top of CFE without an OS. To > build the linux kernel, you need to grab the sources (which are just FSF > gcc-3.4.x with some SB-1 support backported), configure them for > mips-linux (or mips64-linux), and then build and install them. You can > then use this compile to build the linux kernel. > > There is a learning curve here if you have never done this before. > There is probably a FAQ somewhere that explains how to do this. I don't > know offhand where to look for linux kernel building FAQs. Perhaps > someone else can point you at one. There is a lot of information in the wiki http://www.linux-mips.org/ and I would like to encourage people to contribute to it. Editing a wiki page _once_ is more productive than answering the same question again and again ... In particular I also want to encourage the mere mortals to contribute to the wikis. Ralf