Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:13:49 +0100 From: Balanga Bar <balanga.bar@gmail.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell Kirkwood - anyone? Message-ID: <CADocevDEjc8RvX5g1M10zGmsVf%2B7x5xR4uaEAeKfom3CmTg15g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c0e5a207ea7146424e2ada73bdaf050bd39417d8.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CADocevBefY03R2QMKfnsuSp=XM4WBGC3yQFLzQ=1zuD7GGk5qQ@mail.gmail.com> <693425711bdc5e7fbff22bb4056c33326fca8c4d.camel@freebsd.org> <CADocevC8LpuxuFd9rpo3VPn1Otwws3qRr2rY6c2VuMyTGqF8Cw@mail.gmail.com> <7a36b81cb2c29293296bac9ae1764f0091281408.camel@freebsd.org> <CADocevDMpnbts5KFmX0AUPS2_QxEF4dTQo-fQgKbkqn5%2B%2Bm_Pw@mail.gmail.com> <c0e5a207ea7146424e2ada73bdaf050bd39417d8.camel@freebsd.org>
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Do you have build instructions for building 8.2? It seems that the instructions in, for example, https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell are not easily reproduced.... What target should I use? I presume DOCKSTAR was not available at the time... On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:23 PM Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 01:34 +0100, Balanga Bar wrote: > > To be honest, I would try installing 8.2 if I could find instructions > > for > > building it... > > > > Would I need to install 8,2 on my PC to build 8.2 for FreeBSD/ARM? > > > > > > It was somewhere around freebsd 10.1 that I lost the ability to build > freebsd 8.x (which had already been EOL for years at that point). > Accumulated changes in the build system finally got to be too much. > > Ever since then, I've used an amd64 jail running freebsd 8.4 as a build > environment for crossbuilding freebsd 8.2 for arm. These days the jail > is hosted on a 12-stable system. In jail.conf for that jail I have > > osrelease="8.4-STABLE"; > osreldate= 804507; > > Note that running freebsd 8.2 on any public-facing machine on the > network may not be a good idea. There have been very many critical > security fixes to the base OS since then. At $work, we selectively > cherry-pick security changes into our local 8.2 repo, and also our > products tend to be used on private networks protected by firewalls. > > -- Ian > >
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