On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:39:23AM +0200, Lars Munch Christensen wrote: > I'm working on a very small, single address space, microkernel and I have > the MIPS Malta with a 5Kc CPU to develop it on. The 5Kc is compatible > with mips32 but I must admit, I really like to have my kernel > running 64bit :). Is there a working binutils for 64 bit code floating > around somewhere or should I stick with the mips32 stuff? > > I tried the binutil from ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/SRPMS/ but > they where unable to compile with target mips64-linux. Afaik the mips64-linux binutils are the only one that more (or more less ;) work for building a 64-bit kernel. What we have to do to get around the bugs and missing features is building a 64-bit kernel but passing -32 to the assembler so we never use 64-bit ELF. In the end we convert the resulting 32-bit ELF executable into 64-ELF using objcopy. That's about as much as 64-bit binutils are usable for. For details see arch/mips64/Makefile. Ralf
