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Minor README update
Make it a little bit more clear where to get source tarball. Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <[email protected]>
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### Using source tarball
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GNU Toolchain for ARC source tarball can be downloaded from project GitHub
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page https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/releases.
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GNU toolchain source tarball already contains all of the necessary sources
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except for Linux which is a separate product. Linux sources are required only
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for Linux toolchain, they are not required for bare metal elf32 toolchain.
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for Linux toolchain, they are not required for bare-metal elf32 toolchain.
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Latest stable release from https://kernel.org/ is recommended, only versions >=
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3.9 are supported. Linux sources should be located in the directory named
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`linux` that is the sibling of this `toolchain` directory. For example:
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$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.18.24.tar.xz
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$ tar xaf linux-3.18.24.tar.xz --transform=s/linux-3.18.24/linux/
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$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.3.3.tar.xz
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$ tar xaf linux-4.3.3.tar.xz --transform=s/linux-4.3.3/linux/
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### Using Git repositories
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Source tarballs are available only for releases of GNU Toolchain. To build
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toolchain from different components versions (for example from current trunk)
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it is recommended to use Git.
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Repositories for each of the toolchain components (its not all one big
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repository), including the linux repository, should be cloned before building
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repository), including the Linux repository, should be cloned before building
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the toolchain. These should be peers of this `toolchain` directory.
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$ mkdir arc_gnu

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