From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7KG27EC031946 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:02:07 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7KG27ai031945 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:02:07 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from crack.them.org (mail@crack.them.org [65.125.64.184]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7KG22EC031919 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:02:02 -0700 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hBV3-0005QS-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:04:57 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hBVc-0006lY-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:32 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Lyle Bainbridge Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Mips cross toolchain Message-ID: <20020820160532.GA25800@nevyn.them.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Lyle Bainbridge wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a linux kernel newbie, and this is my first linux-mips posting. > I have built a big endian, elf, cross toolchain for mips32 (I'm using > an Alchemy Au1500 SOC) based on the GCC 3.0.4, Binutils 2.11.2 and > Newlib 1.9.0. My intention is to now use it to compile the 2.4.19 kernel. > > I am still figuring out how to cross compile the kernel, but I was > wondering if I had used the correct versions of GCC and Binutils to > succesfully build a stable kernel. Also, are there any patches I would > need? So far I've used the stock distributions from gnu.org. > > Any advice would be most appreciated. You'll have better luck if you use the current releases. That's 3.2 and 2.13 and (I think) 1.10.0. Not sure if newlib 1.10.0 is released or not. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer