[U-Boot] Choosing toolchain (was: 'Re: Compiling U-Boot')

[Andreas Bießmann]

Dear Alexey Smishlayev,

On 11/27/2013 03:43 PM, Alexey Smishlayev wrote:
> Thank you for the advice!
> The toolchain I'm using was provided by manufacturer of the embedded board I am working with.
> Which toolchain should I pick instead?

reference for u-boot is ELDK [1]. Some use mentor (formerly
codesourcery) toolchain [2] successfully. Others build it for there own
by one of the million instructions [3]. ct-ng [4], yocto [5], buildroot
[6] could also be a good choice.

> Should I use the other one for Linux kernel compilation aswell?

You need not, but why care for two different toolchains?

Best regards

Andreas Bießmann

[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK
[2]
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/
[3]
https://www.google.com/search?q=arm+linux+toolchain#q=build+arm+linux+toolchain
[4] http://crosstool-ng.org/
[5] https://www.yoctoproject.org/
[6] http://buildroot.uclibc.org/