On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:19:44PM +0530, Shireesh Annam wrote: > I have an new AMD (Au1500) Bosporous Board and I intend to install > MIPS Kernel 2.4.22 (linux-14oct2003.tar.gz) provided on the AMD CD > provided along with the kit. I have been through the > www.linux-mips.org website. > > I have installed the Linux/386 cross for big-endian target i.e. MIPS > SDE 6.02.03 from ftp.mips.com on a Red Hat host. > > After that when I try to build the kernel using the following command: > $make ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips-linux- zImage > > I get the following error. > > mips-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/root/MipsLinux/oct2003/linux/include > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing > -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I > /root/MipsLinux/oct2003/linux/include/asm/gcc -G 0 -mno-abicalls > -fno-pic -pipe -mabi=32 -mcpu=r4600 -mips2 -Wa,--trap > -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o init/main.c > cc1: error: invalid option `-mcpu=r4600' > make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 > > I have selected MIPS32 for the CPU Architecture and the toolchain > doesn't seem to recognize the r4600 option. You're trying to build a stoneage kernel with a much newer compiler - SDE 6 uses gcc 3.4 - which doesn't work. Use an older compiler such as gcc <= 3.3.x. SDE 5.x contains gcc 2.96 btw. Ralf
