On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jørg Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I am about to start porting Linux to my hardware with an vr4181 processor. > The hardware is very close to the osprey architecture. Now my problem is > what toolchain to use. > I could do with an up to date opinion. > > ? gcc-2.95.3 > ? gcc-2.95.4 > ? egcs-1.1.2 > ? gcc-3.2 > ? binutils 2.13 > ? glibc 2.2.5 > ? Any patches > ? http://www.ltc.com/~brad/mips/mips-cross-toolchain/index.html > ? http://kegel.com/crosstool/ > > Where is a good starting point for a toolchain that will build and work? > I would prefere to build it my self because at a later state I might build > it under cygwin. But a prebuild does also have interest. At work we use plain binutils 2.13.2.1 and gcc 3.2.2, which we build ourselves (host is Solaris/SPARC). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
