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Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> They offer a 17MB download of a packed 'toolkit' 
> which I think includes gcc 

I've been using it for the past few months.  I used 
it to compile the static binaries in BL3.  It works
fine (once you find an appropriate kernel to use).

> Would BL3 be based on 2.4 if using uClibc?  

No, I will be sticking with the same kernel.

> The actual library looked like less than 1MB, 
> so it would fit okay, but the compiler seems to 
> require more hard disk than that for SW3 (BL1 
> and BL3).  

That uClibc package includes much more than the
bare compiler.  For what it provides, it is quite
compact.

> I was just given a pentium 166 laptop with 1.5G 
> hard drive 

Plenty of room for swap on that HD.

> with 32MB I don't think I need swap space 

You are wrong.  Do yourself a favour and create
a 64mb swap partition.  That's less than 5% of
the HD.

> Could I compile with BL3 from source code in
> BL2 

Yes.  Just cd to the sourcecode directory (wherever
it is) and make.

> after mounting just part of a BL2 partition such 
> as /src ?

You can't mount just part of a partition.  The 
entire partition is mounted (or not).

Cheers,
Steven