How to ARM Linux

During last few years I've never found a good excessive topic covering most of the areas to get Linux runnnig from scratch. I remember myself doing a lot of investigation about correct building of a crosscompiler, studying bootloader internals, and so on... I'm definitely sure - if I had a person that could point me in right direction, then all the development should finish much earlier.

Consider this article as my personal note and feel free using it your own way.

Mingw on Linux

I'm using MinGW for years, but never tried to use it on Linux machine as a crosscompiler. Today I've had first experience. First thing I've noticed is how actually easy to install such environment - there is a totally automated build script available from MinGW site.
Pros:

• One environment
• Speed. Native environment vs MSys is much, much faster.

Cons:

• Building non-Linux things on Linux means transferring them from one machine to another.