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| author | Louis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com> | 2019-07-15 10:23:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Louis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com> | 2019-08-01 11:07:38 +0100 |
| commit | 57b37e3717edc54194b73febfbb619d4747a9cf7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e2c206169d7056e3afb8997996b0832297ce3e6 /docs | |
| parent | bd6ef775b4318b3b916a6899d24bfcfc34c9e864 (diff) | |
doc: Suggest to use the latest version 8.3 of GCC
At the time of writting, GCC 8.3-2019.03 is the latest version available
on developer.arm.com.
Switch to bare-metal toolchain (arm-eabi-) for AArch32. This allows to
have a finer control on the use of floating-point and SIMD instructions.
Change-Id: I4438401405eae1e5f6d531b0162e8fa06f69135e
Signed-off-by: Louis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst b/docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst index 858996c8..b447f149 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst +++ b/docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst @@ -50,12 +50,13 @@ Install the required packages to build TF-A with the following command: TF-A has been tested with Linaro Release 18.04. -Download and install the AArch32 or AArch64 little-endian GCC cross compiler. If -you would like to use the latest features available, download GCC 8.2-2019.01 -compiler from `arm Developer page`_. Otherwise, the `Linaro Release Notes`_ -documents which version of the compiler to use for a given Linaro Release. Also, -these `Linaro instructions`_ provide further guidance and a script, which can be -used to download Linaro deliverables automatically. +Download and install the AArch32 (arm-eabi) or AArch64 little-endian +(aarch64-linux-gnu) GCC cross compiler. If you would like to use the latest +features available, download GCC 8.3-2019.03 compiler from +`arm Developer page`_. Otherwise, the `Linaro Release Notes`_ documents which +version of the compiler to use for a given Linaro Release. Also, these +`Linaro instructions`_ provide further guidance and a script, which can be used +to download Linaro deliverables automatically. Optionally, TF-A can be built using clang version 4.0 or newer or Arm Compiler 6. See instructions below on how to switch the default compiler. @@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ Building TF-A .. code:: shell - export CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-aarch32-gcc>/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf- + export CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-aarch32-gcc>/bin/arm-eabi- It is possible to build TF-A using Clang or Arm Compiler 6. To do so ``CC`` needs to point to the clang or armclang binary, which will |