Hi all, while compiling a kernel for our board based on the idt 79rc332 , i am getting the error below. The target board is big endian. The files that where gziped where created with a crossassembler that produces big endian files the kernel is the 2.4.21-pre3. the ramdisk.gz file was created on a pc based linux with some test files(big endian) and copied in the location .../linux/arch/mips/ramdisk 1- am i reading it right that the linker wont accept the ramdisk.gz because it was created on a little endian system (the pc linux) command to create the file : cat file1 file2 ... | gzip -c > ramdisk.gz 2- anyone know a workaround for this problem(other than changing the target ,and its monitor to little endian ) . many thanks for all help Henri from make ..... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/henri/idt/linux_2p4p21/linux/arch/mips/ramdisk' echo "O_FORMAT: " elf32-bigmips O_FORMAT: elf32-bigmips mips-linux-ld -T ld.script -b binary --oformat elf32-bigmips -o ramdisk.o "ramdisk.gz" mips-linux-ld: ramdisk.gz: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian File in wrong format: failed to merge target specific data of file ramdisk.gz make[1]: *** [ramdisk.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/henri/idt/linux_2p4p21/linux/arch/mips/ramdisk' make: *** [_dir_arch/mips/ramdisk] Error 2
