Re: apt-get won't install cross tools
Sorry - a slight correction to the site URL: the correct one is
www.i-droid01.com.
Luke
----- Original Message -----
From: "IceMan" <iceman@digidude.homeip.net>
To: "Martin Guy" <martinwguy@yahoo.it>
Cc: <debian-embedded@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: apt-get won't install cross tools
> Martin & Hector,
>
> Thank you for your quick responses.
>
> Following Martin's advice, I tried Kegel's crosstool and I was able to
> compile it from scratch for the arm9tdmi core (MC9328MXL). As this board
> already comes with some specific module sources which I found (it is based
> on the Freescale/Metrowerks dev board and the toolchains are available
from
> their site) I would like to keep the kernel version the same (2.4.26) and
> include more modules for that version. The crossutils automatically
> downloaded kernel 2.6.8 source and I did not find a way to manually select
> the 2.4.7 sources from the basic sh script (unless I need to hack it
> manually). I don't mind a newer kernel, but I'm afraid the specific
modules
> won't compile with the newer kernels. From the kegel table
> (http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.42/buildlogs/) I see that the
kernel
> 2.4.26 compile always fails though so I guess I might have to abandon the
> idea.
>
> My main goals were to compile a new kernel and/or new modules for that
> kernel and add more support to the board (SD/MMC, Networking etc). The
board
> is the "center" of a neural network of other Freescale boards that make up
a
> small robot (info can be found on www.i-droid.com - Martin, I'm sure you
> heard of it!).
>
> Here is some further info on the specific development board used (not
> all are implemented in the i-droid project such as ethernet and
> touchscreen):
>
> Linux BSP for the Freescale i.MX1ADS / i.MXLADS - Release1
> Platform Creation Suite Compatible
> Linux-2.4.26 kernel
> - Serial
> - Ethernet
> - LCD (Rev B/C)
> - Touchscreen
> - Keypad
> - Sound Support (stereo output)
> - USB function (device)
> - Power Management
> - Real-Time Clock support
> - PWM audio
> - Memory devices including Flash and DRAM
> - SD card
> - IrDA
> Blob bootloader
> GCC 3.3.2 / GLIBC 2.3.2
> Various user space packages including
> bash, blob, busybox, bzip2, daemonizer, dhcpcd, diffutils, ext2fs,
> fileutils, findutils, gawk, gdb, grep, gzip, ipkg, iproute2, irattach2,
> kernel, less, libelf, libjpeg, libpam, libstdcpp, libz, lrzsz, ltp,
> micro_inetd, modutils, mtd_util, ncurses, netkit-telnet, netkit_ftp,
> net_tools, openssh, openssl, portmap, ppp, procps, readline, rsync, sed,
> sh-utils, skellinux, strace, sysklogd, tar, tcp_wrappers, termcap,
terminfo,
> time, tinylogin, util-linux, vixie-cron, wget, which, wu_ftpd, zoneinfo
> Deployment
> tftp kernel, nfs filesystem
> flash kernel, jffs2 flash filesystem
>
>
> At the moment, I'm also trying to get the BSP-0.3.8 offered by
Freescale
> working, which is what they used to produce the current kernel and
modules.
> So as you see, I am still trying to balance what is best to do here also
for
> future developments of the project. Any feedback is appreciated and
welcome!
>
> Thank you all again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luke
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Guy" <martinwguy@yahoo.it>
> To: "IceMan" <iceman@digidude.homeip.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:02 AM
> Subject: Re: apt-get won't install cross tools
>
>
> > Hi!
> > If you just want an arm GNU cross compiler, there are several
> > alternatives to the main repo which is very old.
> > There is gcc-3.4 at
> > deb http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/~nikita/debian/ sarge/
> > and gcc-4.0 at
> > deb http://zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su/~nikita/debian/ sid/
> > # apt-get install g{cc,++}-4.0-arm-linux-gnu
> >
> > But you will get the best compiler by going to kegel.com/crosstool
> > and building it from the sources using the community build script
> > there, which will allow you to choose compiler version, glibc version,
> > tune it for a specific processor etc etc.
> >
> > One caveat: don't get sidetracked by the "ARM EABI" option, which
> > requires kernel 2.6.16 minimum.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > M
> >
>
>
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