In message 20051201163250.vgooj1zz1cgg40sw@mail.tu-chemnitz.de you wrote:

I am not familiar with U-Boot but I would like to compile U-Boot-1.1.3

1.1.3 is pretty old. Please use current code.

for a MIPS processor (using the dbau1550 board). The big problem I have is the occuring error while compiling. Unfortunatly, I couldn't find some working advice in your mailing list. I have used the AMD recommended cross compiler toolchain from MontaVista and the from Wolfgang Denk recommended ELDK 3.1 toolchain, neighter works.

I cannot confirm this:

-> cd /tmp -> tar jxf /opt/tarballs/u-boot-1.1.3.tar.bz2 -> cd u-boot-1.1.3/ -> export CROSS_COMPILE=mips_4KC- -> MAKEALL dbau1500 Configuring for dbau1x00 board... net.c: In function `NetStartAgain': net.c:598: warning: integer overflow in expression nfs.c: In function `NfsHandler': nfs.c:673: warning: integer overflow in expression nfs.c: In function `NfsStart': nfs.c:762: warning: integer overflow in expression text data bss dec hex filename 131448 4448 20148 156044 2618c u-boot -> mips_4KC-gcc -v Reading specs from /opt/eldk/3.1.1/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mips-linux/3.3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-newlib --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libgcj --host=i386-redhat-linux --target=mips-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.3 (DENX ELDK 3.1.1 3.3.3-9)

I get the same results using the older ELDK 3.1, i. e.:

-> mips_4KC-gcc -v Reading specs from /opt/eldk/3.1/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mips-linux/3.3.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-newlib --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libgcj --host=i386-redhat-linux --target=mips-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.3 (DENX ELDK 3.1 3.3.3-8)

The error which occurs is:

/cpu/mips/start.S /cpu/mips/start.S: Assembler messages: /cpu/mips/start.S:246: Error: Cannot branch to undefined symbol. /cpu/mips/start.S:251: Error: Cannot branch to undefined symbol. /cpu/cpu/mips/start.S:263: Error: Cannot branch to undefined symbol. make: *** [cpu/mips/start.o] Error 1

Could anybody give some hints or advices?

This does not look like an error message issued by ELDK 3.x tools.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk