I also prefer crosstool to build toolchain. The problem is that i don't know much about the used processor (88F6281?) in the SheevaPlug. I have not found a datasheet on the web. I am not sure, how to configure the toolchain. Open questions are for example endianess, floating point arithmetic (native or not), architecture (maybe armv5?)

I think it is no good idea to compile your programs natively on the SheevaPlug. The flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles. And i think an gcc produces much read/write access on the filesystem while it compiles. Maybe the temporary files which occur during a compilation could be putted on a RAM disk.

Is there also a crosscompiler GCC version for windows? I could not find it on the download page. If not, please let us now the options and patches which were used to build the linux crosscompiler.

Regards,
Andreas