PowerMac vs. Intel for PowerPC Development Host

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <AB83137E-4459-11D7-868F-000393D6CBAE at fishcamp.com> you wrote:
>
> I've been using a Mac running the Yellow Dog Linux distribution and
> have not had any problems.

This depends on your target processor.

> The plusses are you don't have to worry about cross-compiling or
> setting up GDB in a cross platform environment.  It is just a couple
> more things you don't have to worry about.

This depends on your target processor.

> As a bonus, many of your host's command line tools can be NFS mounted
> on your embedded system and run directly without having to have special
> versions for your target.

This depends on your target processor.

For example, with MPC8xx or IBM 4xx systems which don't  have  a  FPU
and  small  cache  line  sizes  you  may want special versions of the
libraries, and a  special  configuration  of  GCC  that  automgically
enables "-msoft-float" etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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