ARM Cross Compilation Toolchain on x86 machine

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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chaitannya at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Friday 07 January 2011 09:56 PM, Dave Hylands wrote:
>
> Hi Madhavi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Madhavi Manchala<madhavi.linux at gmail.com> <madhavi.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...snip...
>
>
>  Where can I get the list of supported CPU family types for ARM
> architecture like ARM5, ARM7, ARM926EJ etc. In case of Power
> Architecture (PPC) there is a list as shown in the below link at ELDK
> sitehttp://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/ELDKSupportedTargetArchitectures
>
> The same is also mentioned in the table at 3.6.A Table of possible
> values for $CROSS_COMPILE section of the ELDK athttp://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/ELDKUsage
>
> For us, ARM9 is suitable.
>
>
>  You can try using
>
> arm-xxx-gcc --target-help
>
> (replace xxx appropriately). This should list the targets which are
> supported by that particular compiler. For example, when I use my
> gumstix cross compiler, I get the following output:
>
>   Known ARM CPUs (for use with the -mcpu= and -mtune= options):
>     cortex-m3, cortex-r4, cortex-a8, arm1156t2-s, mpcore, mpcorenovfp,
>     arm1176jzf-s, arm1176jz-s, arm1136jf-s, arm1136j-s, arm1026ej-s, arm926ej-s,
>     iwmmxt, xscale, arm1022e, arm1020e, arm10e, arm968e-s, arm966e-s, arm946e-s,
>     arm9e, arm1020t, arm10tdmi, ep9312, arm940t, arm922t, arm920t, arm920,
>     arm9tdmi, arm9, arm740t, arm720t, arm710t, arm7tdmi-s, arm7tdmi,
>     strongarm1110, strongarm1100, strongarm110, strongarm, arm810, arm8,
>     arm7dmi, arm7dm, arm7m, arm7500fe, arm7500, arm7100, arm710c, arm720,
>     arm710, arm700i, arm700, arm70, arm7di, arm7d, arm7, arm620, arm610, arm600,
>     arm60, arm6, arm3, arm250, arm2
>
>   Known ARM architectures (for use with the -march= option):
>     iwmmxt, ep9312, armv7-m, armv7-r, armv7-a, armv7, armv6t2, armv6zk, armv6z,
>     armv6k, armv6j, armv6, armv5te, armv5e, armv5t, armv5, armv4t, armv4,
>     armv3m, armv3, armv2a, armv2
>
> Dave Hylands
>
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>  Hi Madhavi,
>
>
> Read this article
> http://wiki.embeddednirvana.org/Building_your_own_toolchain. A brief given
> a brief about explanation on instruction set and cross compile target is
> given.
> It is highly recommended that you use the toolchain supplied from the chip
> manufacturer since it would be optimised for the chip you are using. A
> program compiled for ARM7 can run perfectly well on arm11 arch, but then you
> won't be able to utilize h/w features of the arm11 arch.
>
> As for the complete list, it's available on gcc's site
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ARM-Options.html
> --
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