On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 04:35:23AM -0400, Kumba wrote: > A question with the CVS Kernel. Are there any known issues as to the > specific toolchain used to build it? Currently I'm using GCC 3.2.2 + > Glibc 2.3.2 + Binutils 2.13.90.0.16. I tried a CVS updateshortly after > testing this kernel, and it still doesn't boot, so either my timing is > really bad, or I'm using a toolchain with known issues. I have noticed > the toolchain does not support -mcpu in .18 of binutils, and I > originally thought this was only going to be a GCC change in 3.3, but my > guess if it's the same in .18/.20, and as such I'll need to use the > instructions posted about a month about to use -mabi/-march? silly question: you specified -r linux_2_4 when checkouting kernel, didn't you? otherwise you are trying to boot 2.5.47, which has broken serial console support. anyway, toolchains i'm using to build 32-bit kernel: $ mips-linux-gcc -v Reading specs from /home/ladis/mips-tools/lib/gcc-lib/mips-linux/3.2/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --prefix=/home/ladis/mips-tools --disable-shared --with-gnu-as --enable-languages=c --disable-nls --with-newlib --enable-checking=no --disable-threads --with-headers=/home/ladis/src/linux/include --target=mips-linux Thread model: single gcc version 3.2 $ mips-linux-ld -v GNU ld version 2.13 64-bit kernel (egcs is patched with egcs-1.1.2.diff.gz from linux-mips.org ftp): $ mips64-linux-gcc -v Reading specs from /home/ladis/mips-tools/lib/gcc-lib/mips64-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) $ mips64-linux-ld -v GNU ld version 2.13 ladis
