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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:40:55 -0600
From:      Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD ARM <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Today's Crochet fixes
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I'm building a wandboard image with your latest sources right now.  I'll
let you know if it fails.

Are the updated xdev instructions valid for FreeBSD-10 also, or just for
FreeBSD-11?



On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I just pushed a couple of changes to Crochet that I thought folks would be
> especially interested in:
>
>  * All boards:  Corrected instructions for building xdev tools.
>
> The instructions printed out by Crochet now include the right
> flags for building a correct GCC cross-compiler.  With this, I've
> been able to build a working BeagleBone image on a fresh stock install of
> FreeBSD/amd64 11-CURRENT r260789.
>
>  * BeagleBone: Added a "copy-to-emmc.sh" script to root's home directory
>
> After logging in as root, try:  /bin/sh copy-to-emmc.sh
>
> It will print scary warnings about erasing things.  If you go ahead,
> it will reformat the eMMC and copy the system from SD to eMMC.
> Suggestions for improvements appreciated.
>
>
> Things I'm interested in help with:
>
>  * Updating U-Boot for BeagleBone to a newer snapshot
>    (Including migrating Patrick Kelsey's patches to support eMMC booting)
>
>  * Building U-Boot with clang (Winston Smith claims it "just works"
>     if you have new enough U-Boot sources; I've not yet tried to reproduce
> this.
>     If it works as well as I hope, it will take a while to update U-Boot
> sources
>     for each Crochet-supported board.)
>
>  * We're using geom_label for BeagleBone fstab now; would appreciate
>    if someone could add this to the stock kernel configs.
>
>  * Diane Bruce fixed the sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port so it
>    builds again.  I've not yet tested to see if Crochet can generate a
>    bootable image using it.  It definitely lacks the newer patches that
>    are in the Crochet-built version of U-Boot for BeagleBone.  If this
>    can be cleaned up, it should provide a template for migrating
>    U-Boot for other boards into ports.
>
>  * Testing other boards:  RPi, PandaBoard, WandBoard, etc.
>
> If you play with any of the above, please let me know what you find.
> As always, patches are very welcome, pull requests even more so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
>
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