Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:28:10 -0400 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: db@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone Message-ID: <D3F7C462-0BD5-4F20-AE32-448BB7B5855D@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <B5DE3D0D-86BF-43F8-9FA2-A803B1FAABF8@freebsd.org> References: <3B16A2E5-C92B-4248-BE98-DD5C1194CB05@freebsd.org> <20130518100512.57c47fe6@bender> <B5DE3D0D-86BF-43F8-9FA2-A803B1FAABF8@freebsd.org>
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On May 18, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >=20 > On May 18, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Andrew Turner wrote: >=20 >> On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:56 -0400 >> Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote: >>=20 >>> I'm trying to move the actual building of boot loaders out of = Crochet >>> and into FreeBSD ports. >>>=20 >>> Here's the first attempt at such a port (many thanks to Diane Bruce >>> for patiently tutoring me through this): >>>=20 >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/u-boot-beaglebone.tgz >>>=20 >>> I'd appreciate any feedback: >>> * Can you build this? >>> * Suggestions for improving it? >>=20 >> Could you try installing devel/cross-binutils and devel/cross-gcc = using >> TGTARCH=3Darm and TGTABI=3Dnone-eabi and using these to build u-boot? = It >> would mean the user doesn't need to have xdev set up. >=20 > I'll definitely give that a try. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. A long time ago I was able to build u-boot using the cross-* ports... = They even have wrapper ports so you can get the write dependencies. Make = sure these are build-time dependencies not run-time dependencies and all = that will be installed will be the u-boot images... Warner
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