In message 316F79677E35D411B196001083CFC2DA01A6D9D2@ganymed.bln.advaoptical.com you wrote:
I'm trying to port U-Boot 1.0.0 to a new board containing a MIPS 5Kf core. After adjusting the compiler flags / linker scripts for little-endian, I run into these errors, compiling a RAM based version first:
mipsel-uclibc-gcc -Wa,-gstabs -D__ASSEMBLY__ -g -Os -D__KERNEL__ -DTEXT_BASE=0x80100000 -I/opt/work/fw/bootloader/u-boot-1.0.0.work/include -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -nostdinc -isystem /opt/toolchains/toolchain_mipsel/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.3.1/include -pipe -DCONFIG_MIPS -D__MIPS__ -mips2 -EL -mabicalls -c -o start.o /opt/work/fw/bootloader/u-boot-1.0.0.work/cpu/mips/start.S mipsel-uclibc-gcc: unrecognized option `-EL'
It seems obvious that your tools and or compiler options are broken and/or misconfigured.
Where is this "-mips2 -EL" stuff coming from? You don't find this in U-Boot.
Is my setup doomed to fail or may I get a working bootloader with some reasonable effort?
This depends on your definition of "reasonable" ;-)
(I may stick to my old bootloader as well)
Obviously this is a tool problem first. I guess you will need to fix this anyway, or you will run into the same problems later when you want to compile your OS kernel and/or applications.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk