Thanks, sorry for I missed the mips*-elf for mips*-gnu. I think that for ld,the difference between mips*-elf and mips*-linux produces only some minor impact on the default ld script, for the behavior of ld itself, it has not serious impact.Is it my understanding correct? But for bfd, does the difference of these two config-choice have impact on the behavior of two different bfd-target? . -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:05 AM To: Fu, He Wei PSE NKG Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: The difference between mips*-gnu and mips*-linux when configure tool-chain 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
