Hi Dirk, Hi Wolfgang, many thanks for Your suggestions. They have been very useful.
Have a nice Eastern holidays Gianfranco Morandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Behme" <[email protected]> To: "Ing.G.Morandi (Portatile)" <[email protected]> Cc: "u-boot users" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Toolchain for 0map35xx > Hi Gianfranco, > > Ing.G.Morandi (Portatile) wrote: >> Hello to everyone, >> >> Few weeks ago, I've followed a thread on this list regarding the >> toolchain should be used to compile code for omap 35xx. >> Surfing on the net, I've also found a msg of Koen Kooi where he described >> a patch to be applied on /arch/arm/Makefile in order to let gcc 4.3.x >> work. >> >> Now I am not an expert of toolchain and I didn't understand what is the >> actual status, thus my question is: >> may I use the toolchain coming with the ELDK 4.2 to compile for omap35xx >> or do I have to apply some patches? > > I don't know toolchain coming with ELDK 4.2, but for U-Boot for OMAP 35x > you don't need a special compiler. A non-broken arm-linux-gcc or similar > will work. While bringing OMAP U-Boot support to mainline, we explicitly > switched to a more conservative toolchain configuration (-march=armv5 > instead of v7a) to enable more toolchains to work. > > Try the toolchain you have and ask or report errors if it doesn't work. > > Best regards > > Dirk > > Btw.: For other code, e.g. Linux user space programs which need special > optimizations, other toolchain might be necessary, though. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
