On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:05:22PM +0800, Davyd wrote: > I installed Woody on an SGI Indy yesterday. Things seem to be going > fine... so I figured I would attempt to compile my own kernel for the > thing (get something more up to date then 2.4.16). > > I installed the cross-compiler packages from speed-blue.org > (gcc-3.3-mips, binutils-mips and glibc-cross-mips). > > I then attempted to compile 2.4.21 with make-kpkg: > make-kpkg --arch=mips --cross-compile /usr/mips/bin/linux-mips ... ... > > It throws an error saying that I can't pass -mcpu=r4600. I hacked up the > Makefile to use the option -march=r4600 (I got this from the manpage). > It then complains that I can't pass -mips2, I have to use -mips3.
Makefile is created for gcc-2.95, which is recommended compiler. > In the end it still throws syntax errors in the code itself. That's because vanilla kernel is missing mips patches. > I also notice that 2.6.0-test3 doesn't compile (it doesn't even have the > 'boot' target). Please note that -test kernels are still in development and not ready for end user. Above also applies, but more is merged. > What's going on here? Do the current options for GCC differ so much from > the MIPS Makefile? Or do I have a whacked out cross-compile environment? > > Also, what kernels are known good? I see debian has compiles of 2.4.16 > and 2.4.19. Is there a patch tree to fix glitches in the MIPS port of > the kernel? Debian precompiled kernel is patched. Patch is available also as package. You're recomended to use linux-mips.org cvs kernel linux_2_4 branch. http://www.linux-mips.org/kernel.html Regards, ladis
