Re: Question regarding compiling a toolchain for a Broadcom SB1

[Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Day <imipak@yahoo.com> 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