Lpc2000

I am considering an upgrade to a much higher performing machine.  The
AMD 64 bit stuff looks affordable and I understand Fedora 5 will
support it, etc.

My concern is GNU cross compilers and such for ARM & AVR projects. 
Specifically, is anything going to jump up and bite me when I try to
move my LPC projects to this platform?  Anybody out there already
doing this?

I don't have to pick this device, I could go with a high end Pentium
and that might be a safer bet but I was curious.

Thanks
Richard

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rtstofer" <rstofer@...> wrote:
>
> I am considering an upgrade to a much higher performing machine.  The
> AMD 64 bit stuff looks affordable and I understand Fedora 5 will
> support it, etc.
> 
> My concern is GNU cross compilers and such for ARM & AVR projects. 
> Specifically, is anything going to jump up and bite me when I try to
> move my LPC projects to this platform?  Anybody out there already
> doing this?

Works for without any problems on Fedora Core 4.
I build my own arm-elf toolchain, based on binutils 2.16.1 / gcc 4.0.2
/ gdb 6.4. 
But, you can also download precompiled toolchains for x86_64 from
http://gnuarm.org/.

   Gert

On 19 Feb 2006 at 3:33, rtstofer wrote:

> I am considering an upgrade to a much higher performing machine.  The
> AMD 64 bit stuff looks affordable and I understand Fedora 5 will
> support it, etc.
> 
> My concern is GNU cross compilers and such for ARM & AVR projects. 
> Specifically, is anything going to jump up and bite me when I try to
> move my LPC projects to this platform?  Anybody out there already
> doing this?
> 
> I don't have to pick this device, I could go with a high end Pentium
> and that might be a safer bet but I was curious.

I just had a problem compiling an old version of the avr-gcc crosscompiler.
It was on a machine that had FC3 on it, and I built the old tools without any problems
on it. I recently put FC4 on the machine and did not bother to keep the avr-gcc binaries.
When I tried to rebuild the old tools I picked up problems. There was some issues with
using gcc4 to build the older tools (avr-gcc 3.4.2). I had to build an older version of gcc.
I used the same gcc 3.4.2 source to build a native gcc 3.4.2. With this I could then build
the avr-gcc 3.4.2 tool chain. I expect that this sort of thing is the major thing you might find.
It is not hardware specfic, but more of a compiler version and OS version issue. 

Regards
  Anton Erasmus
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A J Erasmus