Re: Newbie : Cross-compiling module for wrt54g

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:48:47PM +0100, Christophe Jelger wrote:

> Thanks to people who replied ... I will spend some time trying to build 
> the module and see what happens !
> 
> JP, I don't know if you meant compiling a standard (or a mips ?) 2.4 
> kernel with gcc 3.4.1, but I know it works with gcc 3.3.5 for the 
> standard kernel.

Compiling 2.4 with gcc 3.4 will fail for certain configurations.  Even
where it successfully builds there is always the danger that a more
modern that is aggressive optimizer will do unexpected things to code -
and OS code is very fragile in that aspect.  Thus I recommend to use only
2.95.3 ... 3.3 for Linux 2.4.

For 2.6 anything between 2.95.3 ... 4.0 has been tested - but 4.0 is still
a bit on the daring side while 3.4 has been tested well on many platforms.

Of course you may always be lucky - or have too much time on your hands ;-)

  Ralf