From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 4 22:32:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BAB366; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 22:32:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth3.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F238614C; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 22:32:46 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0MKR00J002GZFI00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:32:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-3, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2013.4.4.212123, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 Received: from terminus.icecube.wisc.edu (i3-user-nat.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.12]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MKR0054A2IF9Y30@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:32:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <515DF177.9060907@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:32:39 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 To: Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: RFC: "Crochet" build tool References: <5DFA61DB-70E4-4C3D-ACA0-995A175706C8@neville-neil.com> <5151B454.9090402@ceetonetechnology.com> <1CBF1416-3237-4DCE-8D61-7E998265C887@neville-neil.com> <1364311809.36972.27.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5151D045.80305@thieprojects.ch> <5151D9DB.7050001@thieprojects.ch> <167CF57D-01E3-4857-BF0E-C40B00FED226@netgate.com> <515ADB81.7090908@freebsd.org> In-reply-to: Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:32:47 -0000 On 04/03/13 23:20, Tim Kientzle wrote: > On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> On 03/26/13 14:38, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> NanoBSD isn't specifically x86 only. >>> >>> The startup script stuff is x86 only. >>> >>> The build/installworld part of nanobsd can be refactored out and made >>> platform portable. >>> >>> The UFS image building part can be refactored out and made platform portable. >>> >>> The startup script stuff can be refactored out and made platform portable. >>> >>> The disk image stuff can be refactored out and made platform portable. >>> >>> These aren't unsolvable problems. :-) >>> >>> >>> >> It's probably worth noting here that release(7) can do cross-builds, >> including disk image generation, with no problem. If that's the part >> you're looking at, it's already solved. >> -Nathan > What boot support does it install? > > Tim > > Something platform specific. There are scripts in the various architecture subdirectories in /usr/src/release, although they are mostly focused on building CD media. -Nathan