[U-Boot] Toolchain for 0map35xx

[Ing.G.Morandi (Portatile)]

Hi Dirk, Hi Wolfgang,

many thanks for Your suggestions.
They have been very useful.

Have a nice Eastern holidays

Gianfranco Morandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Behme" <dirk.behme at googlemail.com>
To: "Ing.G.Morandi (Portatile)" <gianfranco.morandi at euro-studio.it>
Cc: "u-boot users" <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Toolchain for 0map35xx


> Hi Gianfranco,
>
> Ing.G.Morandi (Portatile) wrote:
>> Hello to everyone,
>>
>> Few weeks ago, I've followed a thread on this list regarding the 
>> toolchain should be used to compile code for omap 35xx.
>> Surfing on the net, I've also found a msg of Koen Kooi where he described 
>> a patch to be applied on /arch/arm/Makefile in order to let gcc 4.3.x 
>> work.
>>
>> Now I am not an expert of toolchain and I didn't understand what is the 
>> actual status, thus my question is:
>> may I use the toolchain coming with the ELDK 4.2 to compile for omap35xx 
>> or do I have to apply some patches?
>
> I don't know toolchain coming with ELDK 4.2, but for U-Boot for OMAP 35x 
> you don't need a special compiler. A non-broken arm-linux-gcc or similar 
> will work. While bringing OMAP U-Boot support to mainline, we explicitly 
> switched to a more conservative toolchain configuration (-march=armv5 
> instead of v7a) to enable more toolchains to work.
>
> Try the toolchain you have and ask or report errors if it doesn't work.
>
> Best regards
>
> Dirk
>
> Btw.: For other code, e.g. Linux user space programs which need special 
> optimizations, other toolchain might be necessary, though.