Re: Full Linux distributions

On 04/07/2008, Brian Silverman [off-list ref] wrote:

 Thanks for your response...

 Leon Woestenberg wrote:

 - is binary compatible with the PPC405. 440, and Freescale 85xx cores.

 binary compatible? You mean it can build binaries for those cores?

 What I meant (but said poorly) was that it has pre-compiled binaries.  But
its fine if I can build it under cygwin.  And I am thinking that I may drop
the cygwin requirement, because its painful to do linux builds under it.

 My preference is to use OpenEmbedded and do so under a Linux host
system (any will do).
As I don't want to be tied to a certain host OS, Emdebian or
Gentoo-Embedded are no-go for me.

I have used tools and rootfs systems like crosstool, buildroot, LFS before.

There is also LTIB by Freescale, tried that?

 I need to look closer at LITB - but I was guessing it didn't have PPC4xx
support.

 Thanks!
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Brian Silverman
Concept X, LLC

I've been using the ELDK for an amcc440EP ppc board. It's turned out
to be rather convenient, especially when running a networked
environment. The guy who primarily maintains it is very helpful also.