From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 01:11:19 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 66300491 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFCE8FC08 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pool-96-250-5-62.nycmny.fios.verizon.net ([96.250.5.62]:49824 helo=new-host-3.home) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TMqFz-00026o-NV; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:11:11 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone... From: George Neville-Neil In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:11:13 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <90FB30E0-569E-4DBF-ACCB-36C723A4E937@neville-neil.com> References: <201210120839.q9C8dKR6073428@grabthar.secnetix.de> <2C318C44-38AB-4D56-B102-B12CD7E90776@neville-neil.com> To: Warner Losh X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - neville-neil.com Cc: Tim Kientzle , 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: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:11:19 -0000 On Oct 12, 2012, at 21:04 , Warner Losh wrote: >=20 > On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >=20 >> On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >>=20 >>> I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports = too=85 >>=20 >> I heard some rumblings from the ports team about >> setting QEmu arm VMs to do the builds. I'm >> sure they could use the help. >>=20 >>> It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel that = boots on at least all the armv6 processors... >>=20 >> If someone -- hint, hint -- created GENERIC in arm/config we >> could try that. ;-) >=20 > I've just gotten as far as creating a ATMEL config... >=20 > The armv6 stuff is closer, but still suffers from having non-generic = interrupt handlers, shutdown code, etc. It isn't especially HARD work, = but there's a lot of icky details to plow through to get to a unified = kernel. >=20 What's the rough outline of what's necessary to do that? I can work on = it. Best, George