I'm running into this problem when using the oss.sgi.com toolchain: mips-linux-gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/ppopov/workdir/master/sforge/linux-dev/include -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mcpu=r5000 -mips2 -Wa,--trap -pipe -c entry.S -o entry.o entry.S: Assembler messages: entry.S:180: Error: .previous without corresponding .section; ignored make[1]: *** [entry.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ppopov/workdir/master/sforge/linux-dev/arch/mips/kernel' make: *** [_dir_arch/mips/kernel] Error 2 [ppopov@zeus linux-dev]$ What's the recommended oss binutils version? Pete