Re: Kernel-compiling fails due to compiler-errors

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

Jan-Uwe Finck <ju_finck@mail.netwave.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> just a few days ago I was able to switch my standard-ARM-Linux to
> Debian.
> The first thing I have to do is compiling an own kernel, because the
> current used zImage doesn't support my network-card.
> 
> The compile stops somewhere with :
> 
> 'Processor does not support halfwords or signed bytes'
> 
> The system is a RiscPC with a SA-110 in it, gcc-2.95-1,
> binutils-2.9.1.0.19a, newer binutils and gcc didn't help.
> 
> Any hints out there ?

Don't compile it as a StrongARM.  I'm not sure - but you might try
-mcpu=arm6.

Cheers,

 - Jim