>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonathan> Hi, I am trying to compile a toolchain for a Broadcom SB1 Jonathan> processor in big-endian mode with a host Operating System Jonathan> of Linux. (The SB1 is a MIPS64, but there is also a Jonathan> specific SB1 target.) So far, I'm running into error after Jonathan> error when attempting to build either directly on the board Jonathan> or attempting to build a cross-compiler (with a host of a Jonathan> Pentium 4 also running Linux). I've run through the various Jonathan> FAQs, HOWTOs and automated scripts, but they either don't Jonathan> do the combination I want or they won't work with the Jonathan> combination I want. Jonathan> A query on the MIPS mailing list produced a depressing Jonathan> result - one reply, saying they weren't sure it could even Jonathan> be done. That's a bizarre answer. Jonathan> The various Linux distros for MIPS architectures were not a Jonathan> whole lot better - the most recent were 32-bit and even Jonathan> those weren't that recent. The newest MIPS64 binary of GCC Jonathan> I could find was back in the 2.95 era. Jonathan> My question is simple enough - has anyone built a toolchain Jonathan> for a MIPS64-Linux-GNU target? I noticed someone posting Jonathan> recently that they'd conquered this problem for MIPS64 Jonathan> under the IRIX OS, so I'm guessing it must be possible Jonathan> under Linux. I haven't built that one. I have built mips64-elf and mips32-netbsdelf from source, for 3.3.3, 3.4.0, and 4.0.0 version sources. No problems -- though admittedly I was working from a crosstools build script created and debugged by one of my colleagues. paul
