[U-Boot] Building u-boot on a PowerPC host

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:

> David Saada wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Is there a recommended toolchain for building U-Boot on a PowerPC  
>> host? I've used ELDK on x86 hosts in the past for this purpose, and  
>> it worked fine, but now I need to perform it on a PowerPC host. As  
>> far as I could see, ELDK wasn't supported on PowerPC hosts.
>> My target boards are the MPC85xx and MPC83xx ones.
>> Thanks,
>> David.
>
> Hi David,
>
> Ummmm native gcc?  Is going straight causing problems???  :-) :-/
>
> What is your host?  What is your distribution?  Genesi folks (I see  
> Matt
> Sealey's name on the u-boot list) may be able to help out here.
> <http://www.genesi-usa.com/>

I build all my u-boot's on a G5 running fedora 9 w/o any issue using  
the native toolchain.

- k