Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:26:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: chuckr@telenix.org Cc: gballet@gmail.com, tinguely@casselton.net, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Pandora Message-ID: <20090417.192613.1942083595.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <49E79789.9050508@telenix.org> References: <49E51C48.1020503@telenix.org> <20090414.232338.1606926300.imp@bsdimp.com> <49E79789.9050508@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> writes:
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: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <49E51C48.1020503@telenix.org>
: > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> writes:
: > Mark Tinguely wrote:
: I've been doing more research & thinking over the last couple days,
: and I am beginning to think that it might be easier, at least at
: first, for me to examine the OpenBSD Arm ports (they have several)
: and see if maybe I can just make what I'm after from that. My own
: platform is going to be the Pandora, which is very much like the
: BeagleBoard (the ARMv7A, OMAP3530, Cortex-A8, I'm not totally sure
: what the correct name to use here is), so maybe I ought to start
: with that. I wanted to be honest about that, not get you thinking I
: was pumping you for what info I could get. FreeBSD probably would
: like any work that gets done to be in a more commonly available arm
: port, like maybe a 6-version? I'm not after that.
OpenBSD doesn't have support for the newer ARM architectures either.
NetBSD has some in the arm-v6 branch (I don't think it has been merged
yet).
: I don't actually get the delivery of the Pandora for maybe 45 more
: days, so all this time is what it may well take me to gather all the
: info, and decide where the pieces lie that I need to modify. Being
: that I tend to go a bit slow, this might be a good fit for me
: anyhow.
I think in that time you could make good progress on an armv6 port.
Warner
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