Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 09:26:21 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Skibo <thomasskibo@sbcglobal.net> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Heads-up regarding arm/armv6 snapshot builds Message-ID: <1431271581.6170.227.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <928D9005-E868-42FE-AD6F-C58568D9DB58@sbcglobal.net> References: <20150506015613.GF67741@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20150509194343.GU94075@hub.FreeBSD.org> <928D9005-E868-42FE-AD6F-C58568D9DB58@sbcglobal.net>
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On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 13:55 -0700, Thomas Skibo wrote: > > On May 9, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > > An important note for people using the Zedboard: > > A port of u-boot for this board does not currently exist in the Ports > > Collection, and as a result, support for building the ZEDBOARD image has > > been dropped. If someone is already working on a port of this u-boot, > > please let me know. Otherwise, I will work on the port as soon as > > possible. > > Hi, Glen. > > I have been supporting Zedboard in crochet. Crochet builds u-boot for the Zedboard by lightly patching u-boot source from Xilinx (https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx). I have one more patch to send Tim so that crochet always builds u-boot from release v2014.4 because the latest release (v2015.1) broke some things which will require other tweaks to crochet. > > But, I wonder if there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD on the Zedboard to warrant you going to the trouble to build snap-shots. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Glen > > Hat: RE > > > > —Thomas > We should just turn your u-boot changes into a port. (Hmm, wasn't there a licensing question on one of the files it needs, though?) Once a u-boot port exists, there should be minimal "trouble" in creating an image for it. We are very close to having an armv6[hf] world which doesn't need UBLDR_LOADADDR set, which means a single world can be used to poplulate all the various images. The only thing that will differ per-image is the kernel (and related dtb files) to install, and which u-boot package to install. So there will be a little bit of config for Glen to set up for each supported board, but each added board won't require its own complete buildworld. -- Ianhelp
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