Re: does someone succeed in making the toolchain for 2.6 kernel?

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

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-21 17:06:36 +0800, zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i am not sure which toolchain can work for the 2.6 kernel
> > can you suggest one?
> 
> That's a hard question... 2.95.x compilers used to work and were quite
> fast, but newer GCC's features are incorporated into the kernel
> sources so it probably will no longer work.

There are still users building the kernel with gcc 2.95 and 2.96
successfully.

  Ralf