On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:38:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Wegner wrote:

Coming to Linux (which you seem to target with SELF?), my experience is you have to use the horribly outdated LTIB package provided by Freescale because they did not push any of their changes back to mainline.

Just to remove any ambiguity here: This refers to Coldfire, it seems to be completely different for the other architectures.

Regards, Wolfgang

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?!).

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

*) While coLinux is really fast for most applications, it has some performance issues when using graphical tools because (to my knowledge) there is no fast and free X-Server for Windows. However, in my experience this is no real problem because the applications I used (editor, debugger) were not so demanding in this respect. Using such a bloated thing like eclipse is definitely not something you want to do with this combination, but IMHO this is more a conceptual problem of Eclipse (or Java?) than coLinux...

Hi again,

So, if I have got it straight, with VirtualBox + Ubuntu + ELDK + U-BOOT sources I can start developing U-BOOT for the MCF5445EVB?

Cheers,

Guillermo Sanchez Vitorica

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De: Ben Warren [mailto:biggerbadderben@gmail.com] Enviado el: lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2010 15:53 Para: Wolfgang Wegner CC: SANCHEZ VITORICA, GUILLERMO; u-boot@lists.denx.de Asunto: Re: [U-Boot] Coldfire Architecture and SELF

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Wolfgang Wegner wolfgang@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

Hello,

One last thing on this topic. Could I use also CoudeSourcery Lite + Coldfire toolchain ?

Kind regards,

Guillermo

-----Mensaje original----- De: Ben Warren [mailto:biggerbadderben@gmail.com] Enviado el: martes, 28 de septiembre de 2010 4:30 Para: SANCHEZ VITORICA, GUILLERMO CC: Wolfgang Wegner; u-boot@lists.denx.de Asunto: Re: [U-Boot] Coldfire Architecture and SELF

Hello,

On Monday, September 27, 2010, SANCHEZ VITORICA, GUILLERMO GSANCHEZ@gamesacorp.com wrote:

Hi again,

So, if I have got it straight, with VirtualBox + Ubuntu + ELDK + U-BOOT sources I can start developing U-BOOT for the MCF5445EVB?

Yes, that's how I'd do it if in your situation.

Regards,

Hello all,

I feel a little bit silly for asking this but, is the Coldfire Architecture supported by ELDK?

Kind regards,

Guillermo Sanchez Vitorica