Re: arm-elf vs arm-linux

[M Ranga Swami Reddy <swamim at sankhya dot com>]

Hi,

> arm-elf is a standalone toolchain which does not require an underlying 
> OS. So you can use
> it to generate programs using newlib
> 
> arm-linux is a toolchain targetted to generate code for linux OS running 
> on an ARM machine

Are the above 2 tools (ie arm-elf and arm-linux) crosstools?
 
> >
> > Since we want to use RedBoot bootloader (and maybe want to use eCos as
> > well), I know that they tell to use the arm-elf toolchain.
> use arm-elf
> > But we also want to use linux (we have some kernel patches for our
> > processor and its dev board), they tell to use arm-linux.
> use arm-linux
> >
> > What's the real difference between those two targets ? I know that of
> > course arm-elf won't give support for glibc of course ! Because if they
> > don't differ that much, it would be great not to have to build and use
> > two different toolchains for when I want to build my bootloader or when
> > I want to build my linux kernel or the application I would run on it !
> >
> unfortunately you have to use two toolchains because you have two 
> different operating environments.
> So the system interfaces will be different therefore the toolchains have 
> to be different too.
> > Anyone has a clue ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Valentin Longchamp
> >
> >
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