On 5/21/07, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any reason one woul need to compile the linux kernel with the > > > same toolchain as the userspace binaries? > > > > no, none at all ... in fact you could take a toolchain that is just > > binutils and gcc (no libc at all) and use that > > Not entirely true. On some targets[1] it's not possible to use a bare-metal > elf toolchains to compile a linux kernels. > > Paul > > [1] I forget which target I encountered this on, probably mips or sparc.
i'd be interested i knowing which ones ... ive built cross-compiled mips kernels myself with bare toolchains and i'm pretty sure we have sparc/mips people doing the same actually i know we do it for the 32bit-userland / 64bit-kernel crowd ... that covers mips/sparc/ppc/hppa ... -mike _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
