ports cross-compilers vs. native toolchain

[Tim Kientzle]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Johny Mattsson wrote:

> On 19 January 2012 16:49, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
> Sounds like I should keep poking at u-boot with the
> native cross tools….
>  
> When I was building custom uboot binaries for my Sheevaplugs, I used the CodeSourcery pre-built ARM toolchain for Linux (on Linux). It was the path of least resistance for me, and it worked really well.
> 
> I don't know if that's a workable path for you or not, but I thought I'd throw the suggestion out there.

Were this a work project, I would do exactly that in
order to keep making forward progress.

For the moment, I'm more curious
about just how far I can push this using
FreeBSD tools only.

Tim