[U-Boot] Coldfire Architecture and SELF

[Ben Warren]

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Wolfgang Wegner <wolfgang at leila.ping.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:43:00AM +0200, SANCHEZ VITORICA, GUILLERMO
> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Thank you for your fast answers.
> >
> > Sorry. I was reading the manual in the U-Boot webpage and miss understood
> some of the topics. I just wanted to get the develop tools in order to
> compile and develop the U-Boot for the MCF54455. The manual points something
> (toolchain?) called ELDK that runs under Linux, but currently I'm tied to
> Windows as host. I don't know the version to install either since I can't
> find the Coldfire v4 architecture file in the FTP server.
> >
> > Any development platform or tip will be welcomed. By the way, right now I
> only have intalled CodeWarrior for Coldfire v7.2 and Code Composer Studio
> 3.3.1. Should I try with Codesourcery?
>
> of course, the best solution is to switch to Linux as a development
> host. ;-)
> There are many possibilities, but I think the second best possibility
> is using coLinux to set up a "virtual" Linux on top of your Windows box. *)
> In this virtual Linux, you can do anything you would do in a native
> Linux box, including using LTIB and ELDK (is there a version of the
> latter for coldfire meanwhile?!).
>
> Better yet, just install Virtual Box (virtualbox.org) and Ubuntu.  Compile
time might be a bit slower than coLinux, but it's soooo easy.


> Setting up coLinux on your own can be a bit tricky. Maybe somebody can
> recommend a pre-built image for it that does not have some strange
> non-standard default settings?
>

Regards,
> Wolfgang
>

regards,
Ben