From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 20:56:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AA4A226; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gromit.grondar.org (grandfather.grondar.org [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c20:0:2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AB9E1291; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [2001:470:9174:1:f8c1:b412:e2cf:d4d8] by gromit.grondar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1WatM7-0008ut-Me; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:56:32 +0100 Subject: Re: Building an ARM/RPI-B release (hacked) on CURRENT/AMD64. Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_6B6D6D6F-5A1A-4E4F-B12E-50D1D6C63D46"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 From: Mark R V Murray In-Reply-To: <1397767811.1124.289.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:56:16 +0100 Message-Id: <94BF7018-052C-430D-85D8-CAE14EA63270@grondar.org> References: <9FDD6F0E-B2A9-48D9-A3E4-181868995FDA@grondar.org> <20140417103117.GE44138@cicely7.cicely.de> <1397738961.1124.157.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <1397761628.1124.245.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <7196A020-54E1-42FA-B8A0-25B145B0E412@bsdimp.com> <54D788B2-BD68-4F75-86FF-0C4E71D9B75A@grondar.org> <1397767811.1124.289.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> To: Ian Lepore X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-SA-Score: -1.0 Cc: Tim Kientzle , freebsd-arm , ticso@cicely.de X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:56:34 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_6B6D6D6F-5A1A-4E4F-B12E-50D1D6C63D46 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 On 17 Apr 2014, at 21:50, Ian Lepore 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. >> >=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 --Apple-Mail=_6B6D6D6F-5A1A-4E4F-B12E-50D1D6C63D46 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBU1A/9d58vKOKE6LNAQqzQwP/XMyZn0bouHQN82MK7piiws0m3eHh2Ebd K6USJLYJ0xwxs0wzQA3Bt1WrLZm3RC3J/H+bMR+gekKyV0PiUxrdhorB447BvOGn gvknm/5R9r6vmNJqGcTC2A+ECpB6XDlr1C8YNQaFV/Z1Mwyu/EMeOUIR67JNLbxd 6wJ7JfvHRYU= =x4qU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_6B6D6D6F-5A1A-4E4F-B12E-50D1D6C63D46--