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On May 18, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:56 -0400
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to move the actual building of boot loaders out of Crochet
>> and into FreeBSD ports.
>> 
>> Here's the first attempt at such a port (many thanks to Diane Bruce
>> for patiently tutoring me through this):
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/u-boot-beaglebone.tgz
>> 
>> I'd appreciate any feedback:
>> * Can you build this?
>> * Suggestions for improving it?
> 
> Could you try installing devel/cross-binutils and devel/cross-gcc using
> TGTARCH=arm and TGTABI=none-eabi and using these to build u-boot? It
> would mean the user doesn't need to have xdev set up.

And might mean fewer patches...

Warner