From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 14:33:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC4BF34 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-ia0-f182.google.com (mail-ia0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BFC8FC0C for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so2744906iag.13 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:33:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=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=l3i9t52zFwqGhkxNfuYs1G8WGNwQww+9xfWA9ZHFFPU=; b=Y9rJKp6NXE0JDo69Kx8aG2zVJqs5g4Cl5QxSetWY7EACy7L+4xNeCyTJ1V0mtM0Oeu 8MpI/ZlgTMrkcXYCaxJoACkFPcBttzKsBlNvt8Uq7fDSymzstDZvhXZqvbaGFgrFdFYF 17uRrvZvSspC0wqWpjJjknh4SWuVEOyEI3HySXubz/tW8ENKeQCYgzbBd6NNrohk/j3u zQVJxmepH6Nslj8UOZBm8iOtmN9ukRHHQnXj6tDPmgMMmeXZfcW7jFbqqGZwjXo0f64n D1ityKe85nRcffcnh3hcv8AElU6aE9ZcF9w0MLSHW/FwRHgppZ6UhPYgyL0T39BKcJQY 7QXw== Received: by 10.50.183.167 with SMTP id en7mr1378650igc.49.1350052391025; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 63.imp.bsdimp.com (50-78-194-198-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.78.194.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id us4sm1626490igc.9.2012.10.12.07.33.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:33:09 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> To: George Neville-Neil X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlaNXL2y19gx71Y3wf6h3Fmd4LE1Xs9TPPIA9IxWkEOqPIuet+gy6E+CR7J0GJWovD4066A Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme 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: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:33:13 -0000 On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:55 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote: >=20 > On Oct 12, 2012, at 04:39 , Oliver Fromme = wrote: >=20 >> Well, yes ... Since ARM ist still a tier-3 platform (AFAIK), >> releases probably won't happen in the near future. >>=20 >=20 > Though it could move up a tier as we get more of this moving along. I thought it already was tier 2. It meets all the criteria... >> I've seen Steven's comment. That's the direction that I had >> in mind. Much appreciated -- Thank you, Steven! >>=20 >=20 > Let me talk to folks on the clusteradm@ list and see if there > is a good place we can collect these that makes them a bit > more official looking. At 4G that's a lot of download, especially > once we get images for the Pi. That would be cool. >> Of course I'm aware that such images haven't gone through >> extensive testing and quality assurance like release images. >> But it's something that gets people started very quickly >> who just want to try it out without wanting to (or being >> able to) build a working system image themselves. Or people >> who would like to evaluate the platform for a certain >> purpose (like me). >>=20 >> I'm sure that ready-made images will help in spreading and >> popularizing the platform, and maybe it'll even attract >> more developers to improve it and port it to more boards, >> and get it to tier-2 more quickly. But maybe that's just >> wishful thinking. :-) >>=20 >=20 > I don't think it's wishful. I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports = too... It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel that = boots on at least all the armv6 processors... Warner=