On Monday 16 February 2009 11:26, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:15:20AM +0530, jtd wrote:
ARMEL is a new distro for cross compiling for ARM architecture - embedded systems. No more black magic creating toolchains. Even after creating cross toolchains several times, i have to do a complicated sequence of steps to get a new chain in place. ARMEL will hopefully eliminate this PITA .
Is it just for cross compiling? I thought it is meant for being run on machines possessing one of several ARM based processors.
You can do that too. But the real fun is being able to write code for lots of customised hardware. Without the pain of creating toolchains. Many arm gadgets have displays, keyboards etc (cellphones, pdas and some "instanton" notebooks). But the vast majority have none of these and are used in machine control, robotics etc.