Lars Munch Christensen wrote:

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:17:33PM +0200, Lars Munch Christensen wrote:

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Thanks...What should I do now? Change my code to mips32 or are there some
patches to binutils that I can use, to get it working?

Depends on what you want to do?

I'm working on a very small, single address space, microkernel and I have
the MIPS Malta with a 5Kc CPU to develop it on. The 5Kc is compatible
with mips32 but I must admit, I really like to have my kernel
running 64bit :).

An Kernel with 64bit addresses is less compact and likely to run slower.
OTOH, a 64bit Kernel has certainly some hack value. :-)

Is there a working binutils for 64 bit code floating
around somewhere or should I stick with the mips32 stuff?

Using 32bit is surely the easier way to go.

You might try the toolchain I use for my mips64-linux development.
Be warned: It's barely good enough to compile a linux kernel, no
pic code and therefore no libc. You have to compile it yourself,
the source is available at
http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ths/linux-mips/

Have fun. :-)


Thiemo