saravanan wrote: > hi, > > has anyone compiled yamon bootloader ? i tried to compile yamon bootloader (yamon-0227.zip) which came in along with my board -DBAU1200. but i was not successful. the following is the error : > > suse:/home/alchemy/ALCHEMY/YAMON/02.27/yamon/bin # make > rm -f ./EL/comptime.o ./EB/comptime.o > mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -G 0 -mips32 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -D_32_ -c -g -O2 -Wimplicit -Wformat '-D_REVMAJ_="02"' '-D_REVMIN_="27GDB1200"' -I./../include -I./../arch/include -DDB1200_CONFIG=1 -D_ASSEMBLER_ -EL -DEL -o reset.o ./../init/reset/reset.S > mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc: unrecognized option `-EL' Your crosscompiler is broken. ISTR there was a bug in some gcc versions where the compiler failed to accept its default endian option. > mipsel-linux-uclibc-ld -G 0 -T ./link/link.xn -o ./reset-02.27GDB1200.elf -Map ./reset-02.27GDB1200.map --oformat elf32-littlemips reset.o > mipsel-linux-uclibc-ld: target elf32-littlemips not found > make: *** [reset-02.27GDB1200.elf] Error 1 The source expects the old object format, for reasonably modern toolchains it's now elf32-tradlittlemips. > does yamon have support for producing image in little endian format ? At least the version I know of supports both endian modes from a single binary image. I don't know if that feature is also present in the AU1200 version. Thiemo