Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:34:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Sulev-Madis Silber (ketas)" <madis555@hot.ee> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What platform do you use? Message-ID: <24403276-D738-4CB1-A3BE-BBB72D4370C6@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <53E3E2C7.9000802@hot.ee> References: <7EC2AB25-5949-40BF-A5AA-BF4C98F3F640@bsdimp.com> <20140805182438.GP88623@funkthat.com> <53E3E2C7.9000802@hot.ee>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Aug 7, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Sulev-Madis Silber (ketas) <madis555@hot.ee> wrote: > On 2014-08-05 21:24, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> I also have a BBW that I occasionally test w/ but since I haven't got >> it netbooting, the cost of building an entire image and writing it to >> SLOW microsd prevents me from testing as much... > > I wonder why people like to update their embedded systems by taking card > out, completely overwriting it with new data and putting card back in. > No wonder that it's slow, complex & heedlessly wears out your flash. > > If I do this in my BBB I would get myself pissed very soon because of > the effort required. I never bothered to netboot too, because I wanted > to test it in insecure network conditions. > I mean, I don't remember a case where I needed to take HDD to another > machine for upgrade. The issue where it's not practical to compile > something locally is completely unrelated with this, too. make installworld works too, as does extracting the binary sets. The new installer should work, but I’ve not tried it. Warner [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT4/DNAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEA/6EQANOnuhLCQxolvp7MdtgsOKeO kbMRFvDvOCHIIrRDcR8DJJVTYlcvNxN7p4ZaEoEFkiwqV8o02T462umirFpneYE6 VunxbnR45OEXpkIBHVpTNjGs2/u6/uSox3xzO3V+MdzizguCs4qCPCQPWRc6YYmz PWeEHtidxBLzrdMGpjbtT5KITuuF29fiE4GZIPKmqTlr4aRT/gi15nLOhz+4LnVy KA2edb9UV8kkSnynnuBQ9FDOLsAE2YO6Vtz1hvUxVClQ9NNfLt7FaGpKl893Nk/H FwFiBl6xmSl6M+sq60nltGVrY1w7nC6SgSxwyVnabTgFoySjMZKUpYrgeC9hz042 ctZu7E1B1p9Ch8dYsl/4dNlhmjmrXxfQ2y4fxQoR4u9kTS0kjDguGItJC/BQQHsm +G0mYn5tjR8CO12cU3OLRi5rstcszpoomB267/MM459vrRInb8yHYgRKm6ExfhsJ C+iPChLzNKHYfvoU+dsLfppe5usuVexHuJdJwlE2Qsmpo0eCQbTe6GhWHhr3T4wD GOUC0eqJ63mWgRXSCQbsZo62Cif+8t/X7KPSGbPzHyL4TX41ykaxa++boNq7iy5p HfuKUSBC7PdbQpfwvvxp+Jeuv7lEu5iz7yL6/og7whb+X61WxWyswVsneJEuUDwq Fg8MzAO/Wi9rl8D3BYFS =pYnT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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