From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 27 00:23:01 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 0DA9B707 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-da0-x234.google.com (mail-da0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EE7121 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f52.google.com with SMTP id f10so3879765dak.25 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:23:00 -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=cXa2alLLiJflvtFat5H2WeamqolcNcE59UtSC3XuQrE=; b=DMfzyGMwZ/eEt3xy6Q5yyiZLmO6V23STteCOn8ZIj092ENlnqqEsMwfsF8C9CcREx6 9fnT75uraUzBSgKKHPQe6tJIy4Ry8xpIUcQbhiNVOzZQA+MuVAsMawHwbIWRtJaUFihW JwuEqjID9lbRDDoQv162UnKNdKSm16Rr6hD246EnmAlP5kHjCoe5XgbMxwb/sBrWNmNi ntrffvpYhJo+esWW0RUqjUc97LcUc/k6hv7wirWUPC5UJR8EvP3yCo4IkgwT0pcLMdLy hJqHIM46jDnGrkEzV+fS4OQ/9GojMWgwkNFiUNYS7/EnHKA8JnD5YfEDqQEvWl3JwJQT DzPg== X-Received: by 10.68.134.38 with SMTP id ph6mr25670224pbb.205.1364343780569; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:23:00 -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 xz5sm19205879pbb.25.2013.03.26.17.22.58 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:22:59 -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: Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:53 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <79F9B6E7-9388-47CF-9265-FD27F1883916@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: Adrian Chadd X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmT66bGM/1Uo3CPPrr268fPVcF9BFD2SeUX51+LkAn+XKWqUWkOB26dUwWFXIOQ/ceigLJf 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 00:23:01 -0000 On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > NanoBSD isn't specifically x86 only. >=20 > The startup script stuff is x86 only. Well, it is MBR specific... > The build/installworld part of nanobsd can be refactored out and made > platform portable. It already is. > The UFS image building part can be refactored out and made platform = portable. It has been waiting for Brooks' new install/metadata stuff. Once that's = integrated with makefs, it will be easy to move to using this new = functionality. Native builds already kinda work... > The startup script stuff can be refactored out and made platform = portable. >=20 > The disk image stuff can be refactored out and made platform portable. It already is refactored, the different images just need to be written. > These aren't unsolvable problems. :-) Warner