ARM Cortex-M3

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/07/2011 11:29 PM, Peter Dufault wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:46 , Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> ... except that these versions are hopelessly outdated (You will really
>> want to use the rtems-4.11 versions), there shouldn't be much wrong with
>> this.
> Do you mean that he should also switch to 4.11 RTEMS or just tools?
>
Depends ...
> I'm asking because I'm about to rebuild my 4.10 mpc5554 BSP, and to get started I fetched all the tools from the 4.10 location on the FTP site.
> For my mpc5554 application I make a multilib with "-mfloat-gprs=single -mspe".
>
> Is that the right thing to do?
... for implementing a new target or multilib and active development, 
I'd recommend using "rtems4.11"+accompanied toolchains, because this is 
were active development goes into.
... for "production works", I'd recommend using "rtems4.10"+accompanied 
toolchains, because they, except that still no tarball has been 
released, are "stable".

rtems4.9, though it's still officially labeled "stable", as far as I am 
concerned, and though some people will want to kill me for saying so, 
actually is de-facto "dead".

I.e. to the OP, I'd recommend rtems4.11 (comprising gcc-4.5.2, 
binutils-2.21). To you, rtems4.10 likely is the preferrable choice.

Ralf