From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:30:01 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] toolchains toolchains toolchains
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On 11/18/2011 09:20 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> if you're like me, getting toolchains known to work has always been
> problematic for the arches you don't care about.  yes, there's the ELDK, but
> that doesn't cover all the arches that u-boot supports, and imo, they're
> "fatter" than necessary.
>
> to that end, i've started posting toolchain builds here:
> 	http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/u-boot/
> ~5MiB d/l is nice :)
>
> when possible, i built them which means they're recent: binutils-2.21.1 and
> gcc-4.6.2.  they were also built on an older glibc (2.4), so they should be
> usable on quite a lot of recent (and not so recent) systems.  and i've
> statically linked in all the 3rd party libraries to avoid cross-distro issues
> (mpfr/gmp/mpc/etc...).
>
> is there interest/possibility of posting these to denx ftp and then putting
> the URL into the wiki/README ?  or perhaps the MAKEALL script when it can't
> find a usable toolchain ...
> -mike
>
nice but MAKEALL mips throws warnings for each board

/data/development/vapier-toolchains/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/bin/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu-ld: 
Warning: 
/data/development/vapier-toolchains/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.2/../../../../lib/gcc/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/4.6.2/libgcc.a(_lshrdi3.o) 
uses hard float, u-boot uses soft float
/data/development/vapier-toolchains/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/bin/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu-ld: 
Warning: 
/data/development/vapier-toolchains/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.2/../../../../lib/gcc/mips-gentoo-linux-gnu/4.6.2/libgcc.a(_ashldi3.o) 
uses hard float, u-boot uses soft float

For current upstream MIPS support in U-Boot the toolchain should be 
built completely with soft-float.

Best regards,
Daniel