Hi, I'm successfully running Debian/GNU Linux on a SGI Indy R4600PC@100Mhz for over a year now. I'm very happy with the stability of Linux on that machine. But since the machine is relatively slow (currently 30-35 shell user continuosly connected), I bought an Indigo2 R4400SC@250Mhz. I thought of putting a mips64 kernel on the new machine: Got the rpm's from ftp.linux-mips.org, converted them with alien to debs and installed them on my quad xeon Debian box - checked out the linux source and started compiling: # cvs -d :pserver:cvs@ftp.linux-mips.org:/home/cvs co -r linux_2_4 linux # cd linux # make ARCH=mips64 dep # make ARCH=mips64 clean # make ARCH=mips64 all Error message with gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) [...] make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/mips/linux/arch/mips/math-emu' mips64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/local/src/mips/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I /usr/local/src/mips/linux/include/asm/gcc -mabi=64 -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -Wa,--trap -pipe -mcpu=r4600 -mips3 -Wa,-32 -Wa,-mgp64 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cp1emu -c -o cp1emu.o cp1emu.c cp1emu.c: In function `fpu_emulator_cop1Handler': cp1emu.c:1328: internal error--unrecognizable insn: (insn 310 33 25 (set (reg:SI 159) (reg/v:DI 87)) -1 (insn_list:REG_DEP_ANTI 28 (insn_list 33 (nil))) (nil)) ../../gcc/toplev.c:1367: Internal compiler error in function fatal_insn make[2]: *** [cp1emu.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mips/linux/arch/mips/math-emu' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mips/linux/arch/mips/math-emu' make: *** [_dir_arch/mips/math-emu] Error 2 # Error with gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (prerelease): [...] mips64-linux-ld --oformat elf32-tradbigmips -r -o kernel.o sched.o dma.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o module.o exit.o itimer.o info.o time.o softirq.o resource.o sysctl.o acct.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o signal.o sys.o kmod.o context.o ksyms.o mips64-linux-ld: target elf32-tradbigmips not found make[2]: *** [kernel.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mips/linux/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mips/linux/kernel' make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 # Ok, the latter seems to be related to objdump, right? mips64-linux-objdump: supported targets: elf32-bigmips elf32-littlemips elf64-bigmips elf64-littlemips ecoff-bigmips ecoff-littlemips elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex The package on linux-mips.org seems not to be including elf32-tradbigmips ... Can somebody help me with this? Btw: same errors with co -r linux_2_4_21 ... Thank you,mic -- > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null [...] Answer 2. All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of /dev/random. Stephen Montgomery-Smith on freebsd-hackers