cross-compiler

Are you sure you want to do that on an i486 based system? Did you try to compile a full featured recent kernel on this machine? I guess it will fail (or at least it will need a very looooooooooooooooooooong time ;-)

jbe

As an example of how this is done for the GNU tool chain, uClibc and Linux kernel, take a look at the OpenRISC 1000 processor:

There is an application note describing the OpenRISC tool chain and Linux installation at

Hope this gets you started.

Jeremy

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the Embedded Linux Development Kit (ELDK) might be a starting point:

if you prefer to build the toolchains yourself crosstool-ng could be interesting for you:

there are much more alternatives out there, google is your friend

be sure to have a look at busybox

Hi George,

I would recommend installing openembedded.

It is very good framework that you can build quite a few platforms from. Read the wiki for instructions on how to build them.

Also install qemu, use qemu to run the image for simulations of that specific platform.

Thanks Wei

This might be little old, but it should give you an idea:

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.

George