From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 29 14:09:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29627 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29619 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:09:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephane@wanadoo.fr) Received: from root@tamaya.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.31] by wanadoo.fr for Paris Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:07:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from nev1-58.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.252.144.58] by smtp.wanadoo.fr for Paris Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:07:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from stephane@localhost) by sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA00645; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:04:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stephane) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:04:18 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199810292204.XAA00645@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> From: Stephane Legrand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sepotvin@videotron.ca Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD arm port In-Reply-To: <3638BF40.304CB4F0@videotron.ca> References: <3638BF40.304CB4F0@videotron.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stephane E. Potvin writes: > For a project I have here I need to port FreeBSD to an arm architecture > (SA110 processor with a 21285 as pci/memory controller). Is there anyone > currently working on this? I remember some discussions about arm support > a few weeks ago but I can't quite remember is someone was actively doing > it. I'll search the archives later on this afternoon... > > Before I RTFM and try to learn how to add the support to the FreeBSD gcc > compiler to cross-compile from our i386-unknown-freebsd3.0 to > arm-unknown-freebsd3.0 I wanted to check if anyone had already done this > or was in the process of doing so. I guess it would be easier to do the > port using netbsd as host but as the hw is not yet ready we are using an > ebsa285 board to do the prototyping and I was told that netBSD doesn't > support it natively (though I could be mistaken). > > Also, some pointers as to what are the main steps for doing such a port > (FreeBSD port as a whole) would be greatly appreciated. > > Comments, pros, cons are welcome :) > Just for information, will this futur port be available on an open license (GPL, BSD...) and with the sources ? It could become a good base for a possible port of FreeBSD to the Netwinder computer. P.S : there is a better mailing-list for this kind of subject, the list called... freebsd-ports :) -- Stephane.Legrand@wanadoo.fr | systeme d'exploitation FreeBSD http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.legrand/ | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message