Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:05:56 +0100 | From | Andreas Bombe <> | Subject | Re: compile a kernel...outside Linux |
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:52:29PM -0500, Donald Ian Wilson wrote: > The question is this: I want to recompile my kernel, optimized for > the G4 chip. Obviously, GCC isn't going to do this. I'm assumeing > there must be a way to compile the kernel without being in linux > itself...how else would the first kernel of each new port be > compiled?
You can compile it anywhere you can run gcc (and gcc runs in a lot of places). Using any other compiler than gcc is going to be hopeless.
> how else would the first kernel of each new port be compiled?
Using a gcc on the native OS of the new architecture or using a gcc cross compiler on another architecture. I.e. before Linux can run on a new architecture gcc and binutils already have to support it.
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