In message <MGEELAPMEFMLFBMDBLKLIEKICEAA.zhufeng@koretide.com.cn> you wrote: > what do you mean by "MIPS is NOT MIPS"? Does it mean there are too many mips boards? big endian, little endian, 32 bit, 64 bit, ... It means that there are several different configurations, and you must use tools to match your configuration. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Newer disks don't have a rectangular layout anymore, but Unix (and SunOS) still assumes this. - Peter Koch in <koch.779356598@rhein>