I'm trying to compile 2.4.21 (with IBM patches) on SLES7-beta (64bit). At the end, i got this error:
ld -m elf64_s390 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/s390x/vmlinux.lds -e start arch/s390x/kernel/head.o arch/s390x/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \ --start-group \ arch/s390x/mm/mm.o arch/s390x/kernel/kernel.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/net/tokenring/tr.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/md/mddev.o drivers/s390/io.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/s390x/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/s390x/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux ld: cannot represent machine `s390:64-bit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Does this mean, that my binutils (2.11.90.0.27-36 ) very old? If that true, what is the last kernel for this level of binutils? WBR, Sergey