Best microcontroller with Linux development tools

Does anyone have any experience, or know of any vendors, of small
microcontroller development tools than run natively on Linux? I'm looking
at processors in the 8051/AVR/Z8 etc class. I'm not looking for embedded
Linux--I'm looking for a C compiler/IDE package that allows me to develop
for that processor on my Linux workstation. I need the processor in my
design for simple switch-scanning LED-lighting functions, ie basic GPIO,
and production quantities are in the low thousands/year, so feature set or
absolute cost is not a big issue. The processor just needs to be available
from US distribution channels. I already have licenses for Eagle, VariCAD
and Xilinx tools, so I'm fine with a commercial closed-source solution,
particular if it comes with reasonable support. I can even live without
the IDE as long as it has a good compiler and supports USB or serial-based
debugging/programming.

Yes, I know this is Usenet, but I'd rather not get into a
Windows/Mac/Linux debate. I just prefer Linux. So, if anyone has used, can
recommend, or can just point me to a vendor of microcontrollers or a third
party toolset vendor that has a native Linux toolkit/programming
development kit, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.



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