Hi, I am trying to get my feed wet with the MIPS architecture and I am looking into getting the gcc cross compiler going on my openSuse 10.2 system. On openSuse there is already a binutils 2.17 package available and I was wondering whether it is as simple as compiling gcc with MIPS support for that binutils package? I looked at the Toolchain page at http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Toolchains and it explains the compilation of gcc fairly simple. On the page it says to use gcc 3.4.4 as that seems to be the version that allows to compile a Linux Kernel without problems, however, if I look at the crosstools page of Dan Kegel http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/buildlogs/ it shows that there is no version that compiles a listed Linux Kernel successful. Can anybody give me some help in deciding what gcc version to use? Does the gcc version need to match a certain binutils version? Another question I have about having a mips and mipsel toolchain. I am aware that some MIPS procecessors can change the endian-ness. In the gcc documentation I saw that there is a -EB and -EL switch to select the endianes. What is then the reason to have two toolchains? Thanks for your help. Cheers, Guenter
