Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:30:02 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arm@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Subject: Re: Towards an ARM system-building script Message-ID: <20120929033002.GA18294@johnny.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <B0F429ED-F129-4BF4-9C5D-C32FC589F4A0@bsdimp.com> References: <DD05E72B9F474BFE96B6A4B050D2A18A@gmail.com> <0DCAC001-FF06-431A-A486-2B50BE913B0D@bsdimp.com> <FAA208C1-2872-4BB6-A7EC-04C757533CA4@kientzle.com> <7E18623F-3945-4EA0-B332-5A5C717B20F0@kientzle.com> <9896AA3E-D8A0-4CE8-8160-4672AA07388F@cheney.net> <6B74ADD7-3266-4919-BEB4-B10E0C1BAB58@kientzle.com> <5679C679-A434-4714-BE61-4DC093DA7F34@kientzle.com> <034F9446-B2FB-44AD-BDEE-4C2FBAC51796@neville-neil.com> <9E070889-190A-42B1-9B46-94B1AEF2C20E@kientzle.com> <B0F429ED-F129-4BF4-9C5D-C32FC589F4A0@bsdimp.com>
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:54:59AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:18 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote: > >> Great that you're moving this forwards! I wonder how we can get this into > >> the main tree so that it gets the appropriate help and testing. Any ideas > >> on where you'd want to put this Tim? > > > > Once it can handle a couple of boards and I'm convinced > > it's actually legible and useful to someone other than me, > > then it could go beside nanobsd. Someday, someday, I'd > > like to see this used to build "official FreeBSD releases" > > for some of these boards, but we've all got a bit of work > > ahead of us before we're ready for that. > > Yea. I'd normally lobby for hacks to NanoBSD to make this happen, but I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the bandwidth to still be the nanobsd maintainer. > > > Needs a better name than beaglebsd, though; it aspires > > to so much more. ;-) > > armv6bsd isn't catchy either. BaSeDarm isn't much better :) As an interested bystander looking for an opportunity to get involved, I'm curious: why the emphasis on "armv6" that I've seen, regarding these boards that all use processors that are ARMv7 architecture devices? Sure, armv6 is very similar, but armv7 is what ARM calls them. Cheers, -- Andrew
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