Tool Chain for Arm Cortex M3 on Linux Host

I've been poking around without lots of success.

I'm looking for the right tool chain to use to develop software for a TI 
LM3S811, hosting on Linux.  This would be distributed as a training 
tool, so its almost essential to be able to do this with all 
free-as-in-beer software, and highly desirable that it be open source as 
it would eliminate tracking down any of those nasty "you can use this 
but you can't distribute it" clauses that often come with 
free-as-in-beer software.

Are there any web pages that bring together using the gcc toolchain with 
an OpenOCD debugger, under Linux, to develop for the Cortex M3?

Web searches are bringing me lots of noise, with almost no* useful 
signal so far.

* There's one company that has tools based on gcc, but if they are 
complying with the Gnu license to make the source available, it's well 
hidden.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com

On Mar 29, 8:53=A0am, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.now> wrote:
> I've been poking around without lots of success.
>
> I'm looking for the right tool chain to use to develop software for a TI
> LM3S811, hosting on Linux. =A0This would be distributed as a training
> tool, so its almost essential to be able to do this with all
> free-as-in-beer software, and highly desirable that it be open source as
> it would eliminate tracking down any of those nasty "you can use this
> but you can't distribute it" clauses that often come with
> free-as-in-beer software.
>
> Are there any web pages that bring together using the gcc toolchain with
> an OpenOCD debugger, under Linux, to develop for the Cortex M3?

Yes, we did use openOCD for the LM3S811 on a linux server, driven by
window stations.  We were too lazy to do the libusb interface on
window and gui on linux.  But you can also run the gui interface on
wine.