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<title>Available Targets</title>
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<p>Each $TARGET includes some or all of the following links.  Click on
the link name to get a description.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a></li>
<li><a href="#crosscompiler">Cross Compiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#nativecompiler">Native Compiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#rootfilesystem">Root Filesystem</a></li>
<li><a href="#systemimage">System Image</a></li>
<li><a href="#busybox">Static Busybox Binary</a></li>
<li><a href="#dropbear">Static Dropbear Binary</a></li>
<li><a href="#strace">Static Strace Binary</a></li>
</ul>

<p>The following $TARGET families are available:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="#arm">ARM</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#arm">description</a>)
</li>
<li><strike><a href="#m68k">M68k</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#m68k">description</a>)</strike></li>
<li><a href="#mips">Mips</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#mips">description</a>)</li>
<li><a href="#ppc">PowerPC</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#ppc">description</a>)</li>
<li><strike><a href="#sparc">Sparc</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#sparc">description</a>)</strike></li>
<li><a href="#sh4">Super Hitachi</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#sh4">description</a>)</li>
<li><a href="#x86">x86</a> (<a href="../architectures.html#x86">description</a>)</li>
</ul>

<hr /><h1><center><a name="arm" /><a href="../architectures.html#arm">ARM</a></center></h1><hr />

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<tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>ARMv4l</h2>
<p>ARMv4, little endian, soft float, OABI</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-armv4l.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>ARMv4tl</h2>
<p>ARMv4t, little endian, soft float, EABI</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-armv4tl.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>ARMv5l</h2>
<p>ARMv5, little endian, VFP, EABI</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-armv5l.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>ARMv6l</h2>
<p>ARMv6, little endian, VFP, EABI</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-armv6l.html" -->

</tr></table>

<hr /><h1><center><a name="mips" /><a href="../architectures.html#mips">Mips</a></center></h1></hr />

<table><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>Mips</h2>
<p>MIPS r4k, big endian</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-mips.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>Mipsel</h2>
<p>MIPS r4k, little endian</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-mipsel.html" -->

</tr></table>

<hr /><h1><center><a name="mips" /><a href="../architectures.html#ppc">Power PC</a></center></h1></hr />

<table><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>PowerPC</h2>
<p>PowerPC 405, 32-bit, big endian</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-powerpc.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>PowerPC 440</h2>
<p>PowerPC 440, 32-bit, big endian</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-powerpc-440fp.html" -->

</tr></table>

<hr /><h1><center><a name="sh4" /><a href="../architectures.html#sh4">Super Hitachi</a></center></h1><hr />

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>SH4</h2>
<p>Super Hitachi 4, 32-bit</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-sh4.html" -->

</tr></table>

<hr /><h1><center><a name="x86" /><a href="../architectures.html#x86">x86</a></center></h1><hr />

<table><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>i586</h2>
<p>Pentium</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-i586.html" -->

</tr><tr>

<td><table border=1><tr><td colspan=2 border=1><center>
<h2>i686</h2>
<p>Pentium II</p>
<!--#include file="screenshot-i686.html" -->

</tr></table>

<ul>
<hr />
<li>
<p><a name="screenshot" /><b>Screenshot</b> - The boot messages produced by launching this system
image under qemu (using the "run-emulator.sh" script included in each system
image tarball), and then typing "cat /proc/cpuinfo" inside the emulated system.</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="crosscompiler" /><b>Cross Compiler</b> - A compiler which runs on a standard PC host (x86
or x86-64 Linux system) and produces output binaries for the specified $TARGET
architecture (Linux binaries linked against uClibc).  To use, extract the
tarball and add its "bin" subdirectory to your $PATH, and then compile
with $TARGET-cc as your compiler name, such as:</p>

<blockquote>
<pre>
mips-cc root-filesystem-mips/usr/src/thread-hello2.c -lpthread -static -o hello
</pre>
</blockquote>

<p>The "bin" subdirectory contains a bunch of tools prefixed with the $TARGET
name followed by a dash, such as "powerpc-strip".  The "lib" subdirectory
contains shared libraries built for the target, including uClibc as the
standard C library to link binaries against and uClibc++ as the standard
C++ library.  The "include" subdirectory contains the header files
#included by programs.</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="nativecompiler" /><b>Native Compiler</b> - A compiler which runs on the $TARGET and
produces output binaries which also run on the $TARGET.</p>

<p>You should be able to extract this inside an existing target system, add
its "bin" directory to the $PATH, and use it as you would the cross compiler.
(Except its binaries have no $TARGET- prefixes.)</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="rootfilesystem" /><b>Root Filesystem</b> - A root filesystem for the target, suitable for
chroot-ing into, containing the smallest/simplest Linux development environment
capable of rebuilding itself from source code.</p>

<p>This system is based on busybox and uClibc, includes a native compiler
toolchain (binutils, gcc, linux headers), additional development utilities
(make, bash, distcc), and miscelaneous files and directories (such as some /etc
files and an sbin/init.sh boot script).</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="systemimage" /><b>System Image</b> - A bootable linux kernel and filesystem image
configured for use with the emulator QEMU.</p>

<p>The filesystem image contains the same set of files as the root filesystem
tarball, this time packaged into a squashfs.  It also has Linux kernel
configured for qemu, and shell scripts to launch qemu to run this kernel
with this filesystem image.</p>

<p>Basically you download this tarball, extract it, cd into the directory,
and "./run-emulator.sh".  This gives you a shell prompt inside the emulator,
ala the above screen shots.  Type "exit" when done.</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="busybox" /><b>Static Busybox Binary</b> - Busybox implements
hundreds of standard [LINK] command line utilities in a single binary,
generally smaller than one megabyte.</p>

<p>Busybox is a "swiss army knife" binary, which behaves differently based on
the name of its executable.  This means that populating a directory of
symlinks to the busybox binary can provide access to all these commands
without requiring multiple copies of the binary.</p>

<p>This binary is statically linked against uClibc, so can be run
independently on a target system, in a chroot environment, or via QEMU
application emulation.</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="dropbear" /><b>Static Dropbear Binary</b> - Dropbear is
a combination ssh server and client (and scp, and an encryption key generator)
in a single executable (another "swiss army knife" binary) that weighs in at
around 100k.</p>

<p>This binary is statically linked against uClibc for maximum
portability.</p>
</li>

<hr />

<li>
<p><a name="strace" /><b>Static Strace Binary</b> - Strace is a
debugging tool that runs a child process, sniffing all the child's
system calls and printing a description of them to stderr, ala:</p>

<blockquote>
<pre>
execve("/bin/false", ["false"], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x14ca000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fb
e69a44000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
</pre>
</blockquote>

<p>And so on.  If a binary is failing or hanging, strace can give you an
idea of what it's doing, at least when it interacts with the rest of the
system.</p>

<p>This binary is statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p>
</li>
</ul>

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