Hello, folks [I try to build Linux for a R4k Indigo1. I'm using as and ld of the debian-toolchain with mips-linux-as/mips-linux-ld 2.13.90.0.18 20030121. At the moment, the kernel just compiles, but is not bootable due to further adaption.] As I'm not much into MIPS or gas assembler (most experience with 6502), I would like to have some hints how to work around some kernel-compiling errors: When compiling the linux-mips.org kernel from the CVS-MAIN branch, compiling stopped, as expected at the two assembler files entry.S and scall_o32.S in linux/arch/mips/kernel/ (both recent versions) with a BFD-RELOC_16_PCREL_S2. The fix of combining global/local label, mentioned in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-02/msg00205.htm and other places, got me around the problem. Not every branch needed the fix. Just one error remains: In entry.S rev 1.49, around line 63, the branch target label resume_kernel is defined by either a line statement (ENTRY(resume_kernel), l.79) or a #definition from an other label (l. 52), depending on some #Config-options. As work around I hardwired the branch label to one of them. Any hints to adapt the fix to this problem? Diff/Patch for the rest will be posted if requested. [Now working on with ELF2ECOFF converting] CU, Achim
