On Tuesday 25 September 2012 12:41:42 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Basically, 'bfin-elf' is for bare-metal, 'bfin-uclinux' if for
> flat-binaries with no shared libs, and 'bfin-linux' for FDPIC-ELF that
> allows shared libs.

correct, the current convention is that "-uclinux" is for FLAT targets.  
although minor correction: most FLAT systems do support shared FLAT binaries, 
but they're a horrible abomination that few people use :).
-mike