In message <AB83137E-4459-11D7-868F-000393D6CBAE at fishcamp.com> you wrote: > > I've been using a Mac running the Yellow Dog Linux distribution and > have not had any problems.
This depends on your target processor. > The plusses are you don't have to worry about cross-compiling or > setting up GDB in a cross platform environment. It is just a couple > more things you don't have to worry about. This depends on your target processor. > As a bonus, many of your host's command line tools can be NFS mounted > on your embedded system and run directly without having to have special > versions for your target. This depends on your target processor. For example, with MPC8xx or IBM 4xx systems which don't have a FPU and small cache line sizes you may want special versions of the libraries, and a special configuration of GCC that automgically enables "-msoft-float" etc. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de See us @ Embedded World, Nuremberg, Feb 18-20, Hall 12.0 Booth 12-442 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
