On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:12:55PM -0800, Ryan Sweet wrote:
> I have a custome mips board that currently runs CE. I would like to make
> it stop doing that and have it boot a linux kernel. It has pretty much of
> the shelf components: r4300, 8MB flash, S3trio64 video, AMD PCNET enet
> controller, and something called a SuperIO controler for
> ISA/serial/parallel,floppy,uaart,pcmcia....
Aside of the S3 this all are already supported components.
> I have the physical address mappings for these components, but I'm having
> trouble even getting that far.
>
> just as a test I wanted to try and build a kernel to see how far it got.
> The NVRAM on this device uses tftp or nfs to download a boot image, so I'm
> hoping that if I feed it a kernel I can at least get an idea of how much
> work will have to be done.
>
> I downloaded 2.1.131 src and went through make config, make dep;make
> clean; and when I do a make, I get the following error:
>
> mipsel-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic
> -g -mcpu=r4300 -mips2 -pipe -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
> cc1: bad value (r4300) for -mcpu= switch
> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/net.h:21,
>
> which of course produces a lot of other errors and the compile eventually
> fails.
You have an older gcc version which doesn't know this switch. I can't
remember when I modified the kernel to use this switch but whatever, egcs
1.0.2 plus mips-linux patches is what you should use and produces a
working compiler.
> Can anyone give pointers on what might be wrong, and/or advice on how to
> begin a porting project like this? thanks
Just ask.
Ralf
