From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBCaWXDn21hbm4=?= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:03:04 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] Choosing toolchain (was: 'Re: Compiling U-Boot') In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <529609A8.2070909@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Alexey Smishlayev, On 11/27/2013 03:43 PM, Alexey Smishlayev wrote: > Thank you for the advice! > The toolchain I'm using was provided by manufacturer of the embedded board I am working with. > Which toolchain should I pick instead? reference for u-boot is ELDK [1]. Some use mentor (formerly codesourcery) toolchain [2] successfully. Others build it for there own by one of the million instructions [3]. ct-ng [4], yocto [5], buildroot [6] could also be a good choice. > Should I use the other one for Linux kernel compilation aswell? You need not, but why care for two different toolchains? Best regards Andreas Bie?mann [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK [2] http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/ [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=arm+linux+toolchain#q=build+arm+linux+toolchain [4] http://crosstool-ng.org/ [5] https://www.yoctoproject.org/ [6] http://buildroot.uclibc.org/