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OK I see the problem. I thing that in the longer turn I will go along with just one toolchain for the kernel and the rest. Thanks for the answer Best Regards Mirek On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 sjhill@real.realitydiluted.com wrote: > > What would be in your opinion the problem to use the monatvista kernel > > with all the rest which is build with crosstool. What are potential > > inconviences? > > > The problem is that cross toolchains are non-trivial to get right most > of the time. If someone used a couple different options when configuring > and building the compiler or binutils, then binaries produced by the > toolchains may not match. Secondly, MV may have patches to the various > components of the toolchain that you do not have, so even if you get the > same binutils, gcc, and glibc/uClibc versions as they used, you could > still have incompatibilities. > > Something else to consider is that the Linux kernel and user space are > fairly de-coupled. Does MV distribute any user applications or libraries > that are required to get the RT performance? If not, then you could > start from scratch and build your own cross toolchain and user space and > use the MV toolchain to build your kernel. The kernel does not care what > your user space looks like, only if it uses the syscalls and exposed > APIs correctly. > > -Steve > -- ============================================================================= Miroslaw Dach (Miroslaw.Dach@psi.ch) - SLS/Controls Group PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut CH-5232 Villigen ============================================================================= -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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