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

> On 19 January 2012 16:49, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:
> Sounds like I should keep poking at u-boot with the
> native cross tools=85.
> =20
> 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.
>=20
> 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