Thanks for the info. I'm trying to build 64bit sead so that it can be a basis for a port to our own chip with a MIPS 5kf core. Is one of the other supported boards more generic (and thus a better start) than Sead? David On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:32:55AM -0400, David Kesselring wrote: > > > I'm trying to build linux for Sead in 64 bit. I found that it would not > > compile without the change at the end of this note. After this fix, I got > > the following link error. Does anyone have an idea why? > > > mips64el-linux-ld --oformat elf32-tradlittlemips -G 0 -static -Ttext > > 0x80100000 arch/mips64/kernel/head.o > > arch/mips64/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o > > \ > > --start-group \ > > arch/mips64/kernel/kernel.o arch/mips64/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o > > mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/mips/math-emu/fpu_emulator.o \ > > drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o > > drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o \ > > net/network.o \ > > arch/mips64/lib/lib.a > > /home/dkesselr/MIPS/linux-mips-cvs/2003Jul18/linux-build-mips64b/lib/lib.a > > arch/mips/mips-boards/sead/sead.o > > arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/mipsboards.o \ > > --end-group \ > > -o vmlinux > > mips64el-linux-ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol __start; defaulting > > to 0000000080100000 > > mips64el-linux-ld: vmlinux: Not enough room for program headers (allocated > > 3, need 4) > > It may not be obvious but this is ld's way of telling you it doesn't > feel happy with the options and input files; in some case it could also > be considered an insufficiency of ld ... > > In this particular case the bug is that the kernel configuration doesn't > set CONFIG_BOOT_ELF32. > > I'm a bit surprised to see somebody's actually using a 64-bit kernel on a > SEAD. > > Ralf > > David Kesselring Atmel MMC dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com 919-462-6587
