Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:17:44 -0400 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Cc: db@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone Message-ID: <B5DE3D0D-86BF-43F8-9FA2-A803B1FAABF8@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130518100512.57c47fe6@bender> References: <3B16A2E5-C92B-4248-BE98-DD5C1194CB05@freebsd.org> <20130518100512.57c47fe6@bender>
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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. I'll definitely give that a try. More importantly than the user, I'm concerned about the package-building cluster. One of the goals here is to get the packages built automatically so that not everybody has to build the boot loaders themselves. I've not used the devel/cross-ZZZ tools before, so it will take me a little while to experiment. Ideally, the U-Boot port would just require the cross tools. Tim
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