The arm-eabi 4.6.3-20120623 GNU tools have been in use by many in the eCos community for some time and are now recommended for all eCos developers working with ARM hardware. These tools offer significantly improved code generation relative to the previous arm-eabi tools and incorporate support for Cortex-M4 SIMD and FPU instructions. Developers may install these tools using the eCos installer by first moving any existing arm-eabi tools located at gnutools/arm-eabi/ to another location and then invoking the eCos installer specifying the "-t" switch on the command line as described at:
http://ecos.sourceware.org/getstart.html Alternatively, the tool tarballs may be downloaded from the eCos ftp site directly. They are located under the "gnutools" directory: > Cygwin-hosted: > gnutools/cygwin/ecos-gnutools-arm-eabi-20120623.cygwin.tar.bz2 > > Linux-hosted: > gnutools/i386linux/ecos-gnutools-arm-eabi-20120623.i386linux.tar.bz2 Please use a mirror site in your own geographical region to access these files. Sites which mirror the eCos ftp area are listed at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/mirror.html Thank you to all those who helped with testing of the new tools. John Dallaway eCos maintainer http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
