From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "Fu, He Wei PSE NKG" <hewei.fu@siemens.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: The difference between mips*-gnu and mips*-linux when configure tool-chain
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:05:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061203170514.GA11258@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96E7D5519FC3D741BEE27AB88C7387970162312C@PEKW934A.cn001.siemens.net>
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 05:15:07PM +0800, Fu, He Wei PSE NKG wrote:
> Hello everyone.At the time of building tool-chain for mips machine,we
> can choose mips*-gnu or mips*-linux, I want to know what's the
> difference between them? The original idea is that mips*-gnu for
> developing firmware which has not OS-surport, and mips*-linux for
> developing software on Linux, but it is not suitable for firmware such
> as bootloaders.But now I think I'm not right,it seems that configure
> with mips*-linux suit for both linux and bootloader, and configure with
> mips*-gnu means build for OS such as IRIX surport, I'm not very
> clearly,can anybody help me figour out the difference between them?
mips-gnu is the GNU system (the Hurd kernel). mips-linux is used for
the kernel and userspace of a Linux system. mips-elf is used for bare
metal targets without an OS.
You should be able to build a Linux bootloader using a mips-linux
compiler.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-03 9:15 The difference between mips*-gnu and mips*-linux when configure tool-chain Fu, He Wei PSE NKG
2006-12-03 9:15 ` Fu, He Wei PSE NKG
2006-12-03 17:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-12-05 3:41 ` Fu, He Wei PSE NKG
2006-12-05 3:41 ` Fu, He Wei PSE NKG
2006-12-05 12:43 ` Thiemo Seufer
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