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U-Boot Issues

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I'm following the instructions on the Build U-Boot wiki (www.wiki.xilinx.com/Build+U-Boot) and am running into some issues.

The first errors kept saying that it couldn't find the command for "arm-linux-ar" or "arm-linux-gcc", etc. I fixed this by making a soft link to "arm-linux-gnueabi-ar", "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc", etc. (for example: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc /usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc). That made everything compile correctly (with no errors) when I executed the "make -j zynq_zed" command.

However, the wiki says that after this completes, the u-boot elf file should be located in the top level source directory, and that the mkimage utility is created in the tools directory. This is not the case. Neither file is anywhere to be found... I'm not getting any errors during the build, and I'm confused on why this isn't working... Please help!

Thanks in advance.

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    Thanks for the reply vanmierlo.

    The problem was that I didn't have the cross compile toolchain installed from code sourcery. I had read somewhere that it came with the Xilinx design suite, but it doesn't. I found the link to install the tools on one of the speedway labs.

    When I tried to compile the kernel with arm-linux-gnueabi-, it would seize up and I'd have to restart. For some reason, the arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi- is a little smoother for kernel corss-compilation.