Commit 57b37e37 authored by Louis Mayencourt's avatar Louis Mayencourt
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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: default avatarLouis Mayencourt <louis.mayencourt@arm.com>
parent bd6ef775
......@@ -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
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