From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 27 00:20:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E2D6A4 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com (mail-pb0-f41.google.com [209.85.160.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D69910D for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id mc8so1657822pbc.14 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:20:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer:x-gm-message-state; bh=5CTioHtOFmFkkdB2hJIZlDnOeK9utDD2QV6GTY0QuLo=; b=RAvzvlnQo+fbz/JLtpzls1pFQ49HuOr28e89Dw0cys7b19dTwtQXkNJ7waaP7Trp3O asiXsM7UFFcuAQY0wVq+7Z/+PQtcezjxp50GCfjSove2j3csBdd42bBGReOOATkr1Hcw plY5MWlVr3uHA3hiQYfo0+GdMXrTd8GJXcqQVBAwsUupz9MhmvSkWDeWwu7MdUuKwYn7 sNPPjMqFluG/596ysbwNyDXZ7pnE703oCOhPw37URAmAvCJ5/hDJ3I8Q3fdHoLpeD+xO PeYWTjQA++rD0CeYwqkpQcdqiszKjMT77orilZ9OUZA6PMkI5JdXJ4PZrofC35e8GGDF 1/VA== X-Received: by 10.68.44.169 with SMTP id f9mr9767453pbm.106.1364343621258; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.30.52.206] (50-198-192-97-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.198.192.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id is1sm19211743pbc.15.2013.03.26.17.20.18 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Subject: Re: RFC: "Crochet" build tool Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <167CF57D-01E3-4857-BF0E-C40B00FED226@netgate.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:20:14 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <97CF16D5-8FD1-41F1-B2AE-5A36A3B856B3@bsdimp.com> 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> To: Jim Thompson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlXWJ5HjYNd/AqPg60KKhTMWuZlJgJ3+aaXWoP0OFm1ZrNAPApjtai7xUXH3SrBjH2rO9/u 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: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:20:27 -0000 On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >=20 > On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Werner Thie = wrote: >=20 >> Is nanoBSD or tinyBSD fit as basis for a cross platform effort? >=20 > No, not really. >=20 > They're very x86-specific, but then, so was FreeBSD for the longest = time. Actually, they aren't. I've built nano images for both arm and mips....=20= > Given the recent advances including a flash-based filesystems for = FreeBSD, and being able to co-opt the cross-compiler chain from linux = where clang does not yet support cross compilation (e.g. mips) has = brought FreeBSD to a point where (finally) the issues around embedded = finally are illuminated. Yes, but external cross compile patches have been available for a long = time... Warneer > tl;dr: This has been anticipated for a long time. >=20 > Jim >=20 > (Other BSDs? I know not of any other BSDs. There can be only one.) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"