port-playstation2: Re: Kernel must be compiled with the 2.95 toolchain?

Subject: Re: Kernel must be compiled with the 2.95 toolchain?
To: Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-playstation2
Date: 01/26/2005 13:04:01

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:28:47PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> My question is: why can't the Playstation2 kernel be built without this
> toolchain? Wouldn't it be possible to patch the kernel to build without the
> EE toolchain?

The changes for gcc and binutils that are needed to support the EE extensions
in the mips core (which are used in the kernel only) have never been merged
back into gcc/binutils mainline.

This should be fixed ;-)

Martin