Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:42:23 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone-eabi Message-ID: <1375450943.45247.240.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <A8C10E4A-3577-4334-A916-381E69688137@freebsd.org> References: <A8C10E4A-3577-4334-A916-381E69688137@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 20:45 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I (finally) got this port committed and would appreciate feedback. > > Especially if you're building BeagleBone (White or Black) > images *without* Crochet, please take a look and let me know > what needs to be changed so this is useful for you. > > Goals: > > 1) Build U-Boot as a port with correct dependencies. > > $ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone-eabi > $ make > $ make install > > This uses the arm-eabi-gcc cross-compiler so it can build on > any FreeBSD architecture and properly spit out an ARM executable. > > 2) Make it unnecessary for most people to actually build U-Boot. > > The port installs the binary bits into > /usr/local/share/u-boot/beaglebone-eabi. From there, system > builders such as Crochet can just copy the bits onto target images. > This also means that the FreeBSD package-building clusters > can build this so that people can get a usable pre-built > U-Boot by installing a binary package. > > 3) Provide a full-featured U-Boot for BeagleBone that can be used > for a variety of purposes. > > This port is currently based on the patches I developed while > working on Crochet, and I hope to soon switch Crochet to use > this instead of building U-Boot itself. But it should be useful to > anyone trying to run FreeBSD on BeagleBone, regardless of how > you're building or booting the system. If it's not useful to you, > please let me know why so I can try to make it more general. > (Rui has already suggested some changes to better support > netbooting.) > > 4) Provide a template for other U-Boot ports. > > Once this is stable, I intend to use the same approach to add > ports for U-Boot on RPi, U-Boot on PandaBoard, etc. > > Tim > > P.S. By the way, to make this work, I had to add real ARM cross-compiler > ports. We now have devel/arm-eabi-binutils and devel/arm-eabi-gcc > I took this out for a test drive yesterday, and it works great, thanks. I was able to adapt it pretty quickly to build myself a custom u-boot for the wandboard. About the only thing I had to change was to put the api_net stuff back in. -- Ian
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