On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 05:15:07PM +0800, Fu, He Wei PSE NKG wrote: > Hello everyone.At the time of building tool-chain for mips machine,we > can choose mips*-gnu or mips*-linux, I want to know what's the > difference between them? The original idea is that mips*-gnu for > developing firmware which has not OS-surport, and mips*-linux for > developing software on Linux, but it is not suitable for firmware such > as bootloaders.But now I think I'm not right,it seems that configure > with mips*-linux suit for both linux and bootloader, and configure with > mips*-gnu means build for OS such as IRIX surport, I'm not very > clearly,can anybody help me figour out the difference between them? mips-gnu is the GNU system (the Hurd kernel). mips-linux is used for the kernel and userspace of a Linux system. mips-elf is used for bare metal targets without an OS. You should be able to build a Linux bootloader using a mips-linux compiler. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
