[U-Boot] Coldfire Architecture and SELF

[Wolfgang Wegner <wolfgang@leila.ping.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:43:00AM +0200, SANCHEZ VITORICA, GUILLERMO wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Thank you for your fast answers. 
> 
> Sorry. I was reading the manual in the U-Boot webpage and miss understood some of the topics. I just wanted to get the develop tools in order to compile and develop the U-Boot for the MCF54455. The manual points something (toolchain?) called ELDK that runs under Linux, but currently I'm tied to Windows as host. I don't know the version to install either since I can't find the Coldfire v4 architecture file in the FTP server.
> 
> Any development platform or tip will be welcomed. By the way, right now I only have intalled CodeWarrior for Coldfire v7.2 and Code Composer Studio 3.3.1. Should I try with Codesourcery?

of course, the best solution is to switch to Linux as a development
host. ;-)
There are many possibilities, but I think the second best possibility
is using coLinux to set up a "virtual" Linux on top of your Windows box. *)
In this virtual Linux, you can do anything you would do in a native
Linux box, including using LTIB and ELDK (is there a version of the
latter for coldfire meanwhile?!).

Setting up coLinux on your own can be a bit tricky. Maybe somebody can
recommend a pre-built image for it that does not have some strange
non-standard default settings?

Regards,
Wolfgang

*) While coLinux is really fast for most applications, it has some
performance issues when using graphical tools because (to my knowledge)
there is no fast and free X-Server for Windows. However, in my experience
this is no real problem because the applications I used (editor, debugger)
were not so demanding in this respect. Using such a bloated thing like
eclipse is definitely not something you want to do with this combination,
but IMHO this is more a conceptual problem of Eclipse (or Java?) than
coLinux...