[U-Boot-Users] software FP yada yada yada

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Ulf,

in message <011f01c6ee45$0eefaba0$0d68fe51 at atmel.com> you wrote:
> 
> According to the crosstool documentation at www.kegel.com:
> 
> Most combinations of gcc 3.x.x and binutils fails when you try to build a softfloat toolchain
> All tested combinations of gcc-4.x.x and binutils fails if softfloat is enabled.
> If you want to use gcc 4, you cannot build u-boot as is.

This is not correct. See for example ELDK 4.0: based on GCC 4.0, based
on crosstool, and works just fine :-)

> It is worth 10s of kB to be able to use a single toolchain to build
> u-boot, Linux and filesystem

Agreed. That's how we do it with the  ELDK.  I  don't  see  why  this
should be impossible for others.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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