Hi folks,
> I have a bit more info re compiling the DEC kernel... if you tell
> cc to produce little-endian using -EL, and as to output the
> intermediate files in ecoff with -oformat ecoff-littlemips (you need to
> uncomment the ASFLAGS line in arch/mips/Makefile and add this), AND
> you tell ld to accept input in ecoff with -b ecoff-littlemips, THEN
> the resultant kernel is usable when built with 2.6.2 binutils!
>
> So, all we need do is alter the Makefiles a bit... <whew!>
It's still one of those nice binutils bugs that I've been chasing again
and again and again. Looks like BFD was written to be close to
undebugeable :-(
Ralf
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