* Abdij Bhat <Abdij.Bhat@kshema.com> on Thu, Apr 04, 2002:

> Hi,
>  When i try compiling the Kernel for mips i get errors. The kernel is 2.4.17
> downloaded from www.kernel.org. I have the mips developments environment
> set. I have (hopefully) the right headers and have modified the makefile to
> get the headers from those include directories.
>  My main problem is changing the architecture from arch686 ( mine ) to mips.
> How to i do this? What do i need to do inorder for the make to get the right
> architecture? Or is there some other problem too?
> 

You need to pass something like:

$ make ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux- config dep clean vmlinux

So that the kernel build system knows that you are cross-compiling.

M. R.