Michael Dosser wrote: > 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: The 64bit IP22 Kernel was broken for quite some time, I don't know if this changed in the meanwhile. [snip] > 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 ../../gcc/toplev.c:1367: Internal compiler error in function fatal_insn egcs is known to be broken WRT, and horribly outdated anyway. [snip] > 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? No, this ld is too old to handle elf32-tradbigmips. You'll need a more up to date toolchain. Thiemo
