On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Brian White wrote:
That's what I'm figuring out, but it tried to create a link from "asm-arm" and I wasn't sure if there were endian dependencies there. Can I just link it to "asm-armeb" and have it work?
All I did was build some cross tools, called them armeb-gcc, etc. Then: setenv ARCH arm setenv CROSS_COMPILE armeb- make ixdp425_config make
and ended up with a big endian U-Boot. I started hacking from there and haven't seen any problems. If there are any, we have not found them yet.
I think I'm just going to link all my tools so they're available as both "armeb-linux" and "arm-linux". My worry is that something will be specifically little-endian somewhere and will be quietly compiled incorrectly.
I think you worry too much, and naming the same tool by those two different names would seem to be more of a problem than doing it properly. If the tools are built correctly for big endian ARM, it seems everything works fine.
I have no further comments on the subject. Good Luck. :-)
-- Dan