wiki: ARM Toolchains

Hi,

can someone please clean up this page: https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Family:-ARM

The CodeBench links are dying (2 down, 1 to go).

Cheers, Ludwig

seems like they want to make it a "registration ware"-software:

http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/evaluations/arm-gnulinux?cmpid=7152

I'm going to remove the dead links. I'm using the tar.gz version, which is still alive. I have at least one backup of this file, if it is going to die too...

For any windows users: raise your hands now! What are you using? Do you have a copy of the windows installer on your disk?

Best Christian

Hi, I think we can use gnu arm embedded toolchain. https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded . I use it in both windows and linux . In windows, i usually use emblock ide, and it has it own bare-metal toolchain.

I added the linaro and the gnu-arm toolchains to the wiki.

We had the mentor toolchain there, because it was stable and did a good job. perhaps we go for an other "advice" in the future.

Just to be clear: one can use any toolchain that supports C99 with:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_array

The old mentor 2008q4 toolchain is known for not supporting this feature.

Best Christian

Hi!

>I think we can use gnu arm embedded toolchain. >GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain in Launchpad . I use it in both windows and linux >. In windows, i usually use emblock ide, and it has it own bare-metal >toolchain.

I added the linaro and the gnu-arm toolchains to the wiki.

The toolchain provided by ARM works well with the Cortex MCUs, but have shown to be problematic with ARM7 IIRC.

Cheers, Oleg