[U-Boot] U-Boot and ELDK

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Roman,

In message <40a670230809112359j4c1d9cf1p56afc8114b81bf6d at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> There are numerous toolchains and kits out there -- head's spinning.
> ELDK is one of them. In my understanding ELDK focuses on PowerPC
> architecture, but toolchains for ARM/MIPS architectures are also

In theory, ELDK supports ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC likewise. Relaity  is
that  we  are  customer  driven, and normally new versions get ported
PowerPC first, then ARM, and finally MIPS. You can see this right now:
the PowerPC has been out for a couple of months, ARM is still a few
weeks away, and MIPS also.

> available. How reasonable is it to take it and use it for, let's say,
> ARM9 based platform ?

It's perfectly reasonable. We use only the ELDK four our work, on all
 ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC systems.

> How necessary is it to install ELDK in order to be able to compile
> U-Boot for non-PPC platform?

It's not necessary. You can use any  other  (decent)  tool  chain  as
well.  The  nice  thing  with the ELDk is that it comes ready-to-use,
well tested, and in indentical versions for ARM, MIPS,  and  PowerPC.
And  it's  not  only a cross tool chain, but also the native run time
environment which will come in handy once you got U-Boot running  and
go forward to porting Linux :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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