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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2016 19:35:15 -0700
From:      Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: upgrading arm6hf
Message-ID:  <20160521023515.GA15151@bluezbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <1463797063.1180.354.camel@freebsd.org>
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Ian Lepore (ian@freebsd.org) wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 19:12 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> > 
> > It looks as if three kernels are available. The one called
> > kernel.spare reports 
> > root@www:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD www.zefox.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #71 r297769:
> > Sat Apr  9 18:11:07 PDT 2016     bob@www.zefox.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/s
> > ys/RPI2  arm
> > 
> > kernel.old reports
> > root@www:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD www.zefox.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #101
> > r300255M: Thu May 19 23:26:52 PDT 2016     root@www.zefox.com:/usr/ob
> > j/usr/src/sys/RPI2  arm
> > 
> > kernel (the latest one) reports
> > root@www:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD www.zefox.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r300334M:
> > Fri May 20 15:47:30 PDT 2016     root@www.zefox.com:/usr/obj/arm.armv
> > 6hf/usr/src/sys/RPI2  arm
> > 
> > Would it help to back down to one of the older kernels, given that
> > userland is closer to 
> > the latest kernel?
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> > 
> 
> It might be worth trying to use kernel.old, verify that uname -p says
> armv6hf again when booted from it, then see if you can buildworld and
> buildkernel with TARGET_ARCH=armv6.  If so, then you should be able to
> install those (remember to use the TARGET_ARCH=armv6 when installing
> too!), and then you'll be on the new armv6 with hardfloat.  I think.

I don't think you need to use old kernel. You can fake all uname
parameters using env variables. e.g.:
env UNAME_m=foo  UNAME_p=bar uname -m -p

If buildworld/buildkernel relies on uname that should be enough



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