What are the best cross-development tools to build Linux for MPC860, kernel ver. 2.2.13 or later?

What are the best cross-development tools to build Linux for MPC860, kernel ver. 2.2.13 or later?

[Ilya Gindentuller]

Hi, everybody!

We are complete novices in Linux development and want to learn how to use
Linux on MPC860.
So, please help us out since we are stuck with so many choices and versions
floating around.

I found Linux port for MPC860 ver.2.2.13 (in the ftp section of
www.ppc.kernel.org) and I want
to build it (as is) to run on our EST board.

We have to do cross-development under Windows 98/NT.
I searched mailing lists and it looks that everybody is using native Linux
(MAC) machines
to do development - no cross-development environment.

Please, could somebody direct us to the best source of embedded Linux
cross-development tools that we
can use on Windows 98/NT x86 machine to generate code for MPC860 EST board?

All input and instructions are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
                                Ilya Gindentuller


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Re: What are the best cross-development tools to build Linux for MPC860, kernel ver. 2.2.13 or later?

[Jim Chapman]

Bright Star Engineering BSE (www.brightstareng.com) sell a SDK with
their boards for x86 linux or windows 9x/NT hosts. The latter uses the
cygnus toolkit. Whilst these tools are great for cross-compiling the
linux kernel on x86 win32 hosts, you quickly find that that's the least
of your worries; you will probably need to build "user" applications for
the 8xx too (unless you use standard linuxPPC tools with kernel FPU
emulation). The BSE SDK includes many such user apps, such as ftpd,
httpd, sh etc but you are sure to want other linux goodies that they
don't provide. To build such tools in the cygnus environment on win32
hosts is much harder than on x86 linux hosts. On linuxPPC hosts, it is
almost trivial to rebuild those apps for the 8xx, hence some of us like
a linuxPPC machine for embedded PPC linux work.

I recommend you set up one of your win32 machines as a dual-boot
win32/linux box and go from there. The best way to learn about linux is
to use it.

Ilya Gindentuller wrote:
> 
> Hi, everybody!
> 
> We are complete novices in Linux development and want to learn how to use
> Linux on MPC860.
> So, please help us out since we are stuck with so many choices and versions
> floating around.
> 
> I found Linux port for MPC860 ver.2.2.13 (in the ftp section of
> www.ppc.kernel.org) and I want
> to build it (as is) to run on our EST board.
> 
> We have to do cross-development under Windows 98/NT.
> I searched mailing lists and it looks that everybody is using native Linux
> (MAC) machines
> to do development - no cross-development environment.
> 
> Please, could somebody direct us to the best source of embedded Linux
> cross-development tools that we
> can use on Windows 98/NT x86 machine to generate code for MPC860 EST board?
> 
> All input and instructions are welcome and greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>                                 Ilya Gindentuller

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Re: What are the best cross-development tools to build Linux for MPC860, kernel ver. 2.2.13 or later?

[Grant Erickson]

Ilya:

I'd strongly recommend taking one or more of your Windows 98/NT machines
and installing Linux on them. You can then easily build and install a GCC
cross-compiler there and do your development in that environment. This
will serve two purposes A) acclimate you with Linux and B) make your
development work easier than if you were to do it from Windows.

If that's out-of-the-question, I believe it is, in theory, possible to
compile GCC for DOS and Cygnus (now Red Hat) may even sell a precompiled,
supported package for this environment.

Regards,

Grant

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ilya Gindentuller wrote:
> We are complete novices in Linux development and want to learn how to
> use Linux on MPC860. So, please help us out since we are stuck with so
> many choices and versions floating around.
> 
> I found Linux port for MPC860 ver.2.2.13 (in the ftp section of
> www.ppc.kernel.org) and I want to build it (as is) to run on our EST
> board.
> 
> We have to do cross-development under Windows 98/NT. I searched
> mailing lists and it looks that everybody is using native Linux (MAC)
> machines to do development - no cross-development environment.
> 
> Please, could somebody direct us to the best source of embedded Linux
> cross-development tools that we can use on Windows 98/NT x86 machine
> to generate code for MPC860 EST board?
> 
> All input and instructions are welcome and greatly appreciated.


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