[U-Boot-Users] Re: MIPS LE build problems

[Matej Kupljen]

Hi

> > But, this way you need two toolchains :-(
> 
> Two - or one that can be called using different names (like the  ELDK
> does).

Different names?
What about default endianness?

This is in the mipsel-linux-gcc -dumpspecs:
*multilib_defaults:
EL mips1 mabi=32

And in the mips-linux-gcc -dumpspecs:
*multilib_defaults:
EB mips1 mabi=32

> Ummm... How is this handled in the Linux kernel?

In .config:
CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
or
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y

Actually, when you're building toolchains for MIPS with crosstool, the
difference between the mipsel(EL) and mips(BE) is in kernel config file,
which sets the endianness for the toolchain.

BR,
Matej