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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:56:16 +0100
From:      Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>, ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: Building an ARM/RPI-B release (hacked) on CURRENT/AMD64.
Message-ID:  <94BF7018-052C-430D-85D8-CAE14EA63270@grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <1397767811.1124.289.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 17 Apr 2014, at 21:50, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 20:54 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
>> I=92m guessing (more like hoping) that once the boot bits work, =
they=92ll be pretty stable for a given platform for a while, and the =
.img file could be kept under src/release/=85 somewhere. This way, it =
doesn=92t matter if some humongous GCC port is used for cross-building; =
this would be only needed when the boot-bits change.
>> <thinking>
>=20
> I'm not very familiar with crochet, but I'm confused now... Tim K. is
> the creator of crochet, and he's the maintainer of the
> u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port, which uses the gcc cross-compiler from
> ports.  So did Tim not use his own excellent port in crochet?

No, and it may have something to do with ports/lang/arm-*-(binutils|gcc) =
being a bit unstable (By that I mean they kinda came-and-went, and which =
to use was quite a guessing game. This is now moot as there is now the =
useful-looking gcc-arm-ports/devel/embedded which seems to enjoy a lot =
of TLC!).

M
--=20
Mark R V Murray


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