RedBoot? (ARM newlib build)

[Toralf Lund]

Hello again,

>> Toralf:
>>
>>
>> Actually, arm-elf newlib assumes ARM's toolchain (esp. the Angel 
>> monitor/debugger), which works using SWIs.  The following procedure, 
>> which I excerpted from one of my training manuals (and I think it's 
>> on my website somewhere), rebuilds newlib without SWIs.  Please 
>> pardon the reformatting, it looks much better in PDF.  :^)
>
>
> Ah. Yes. Now I see. I got confused by the fact that I have 
> redboot-crt0.o, redboot.ld etc. Those are from libgloss, though, not 
> newlib/libc. I'm now building with the attached patch applied...

I turns out that I still get "swi" based read() and write() when doing 
this. I suspect that some portions of the source code will assume one of 
the monitors even when none of the flags are specified. Do you happen to 
know more about this?

- Toralf



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