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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:03:34 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ubldr vs ubldr.bin?
Message-ID:  <1437019414.1334.355.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <D31CC1FC-4D0F-456A-BBD6-BD6CEC31B2F1@kientzle.com>
References:  <op.x1tfyc2ckndu52@53555a16.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl> <1436978285.1334.335.camel@freebsd.org> <D31CC1FC-4D0F-456A-BBD6-BD6CEC31B2F1@kientzle.com>

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On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 20:15 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ubldr.bin is a raw executable image
> > (no elf headers) which is self-relocating and can be loaded at any
> > address.  …  a common armv6[hf] userland that runs
> > on any board.  Previously the single userland difference between various
> > arm boards is that UBLDR_LOADADDR was different for each board.
> 
> Wonderful!  Nice work.
> 
> 
> > … and ubldr is still
> > being built only for compatibility with people that have older u-boot
> > installed.
> 
> Hmmm….  I wonder how Crochet should handle this.  Plenty of folks use Crochet to build 10-STABLE and 10.1 images, so we have to be a little careful about jumping ahead with new features that are only available in 11-CURRENT.
> 
> Any plans to MFC this?
> 
> Tim

It has all been MFC'd to 10-stable around the end of May and will be in
10.2.  The only missing piece is changes to the u-boot ports.  I got
started on that, got like just wandboard done (but not comitted, I'm not
actually a ports committer so I have to get someone's approval to
commit), then this crazy-deadline project came up at work.

-- Ian





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