From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 04:08:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEA710656A5 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:08:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from natarajsn@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ECB8FC15 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so6584776wyj.13 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:08:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=awGQ1Pg1w8qvE7E9OIbph7EVfAfSE9O7jtGRIaGgO9U=; b=GxbWsRuszaa3ZhDOYsgL7HrVlYrnKqrmaf39nOtZMq+/XtwqBwUP1zzTiwJVCKGZpk Alxm2WH8+bMNVsB0lXPC/YPMgLIIWQHr0MUHDpDwA/Ru8voygq9rsqEGXJkLmGgnjIYd QENilDa23P0VbVbCp0GtGw7WE15NyiWFGSzx8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=iv3lxez1kKea65pZomehtY4YGnyQ8I/72vKilHmzVS1lEZZPWp5kE4AIdIHDm0LaLe iyYv+en6ZGqYFC42dd5Of56SEhzAH/khOPdl4JixuXxit7Q4eBkWcQ4tediaY7LNalYw wvMvRHOuw+oNQyBOt3pWsEKmD75ckCBa91K2E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.152.149 with SMTP id g21mr3795006wbw.228.1281930389585; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:46:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.152.148 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:46:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100815.153437.722022410199781366.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20100815.085312.690091871549704621.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100816081533.30ff461f@fubar.geek.nz> <1281907405.27697.19.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> <20100815.153437.722022410199781366.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:16:28 +0530 Message-ID: From: Nataraj S Narayan To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD EABI ARM & Network boot image howto? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:08:25 -0000 Hi Warner and other friends I am on at91sam9263ek , presently working on arm-linux-uclibc. May I have some HOWTO as to getting the kernel and FS on FreeBSD for the said board? Hopefully your work on at91sam9260ek would suit me? Of course, I do have to source installed. I am using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE ,only at the user level mainly. I find FreeBSD quite good for cross compiling QT and freepascal (www.freepascal.org) code for arm-linux. Warm regards Nataraj On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:04 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <1281907405.27697.19.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> > John Nicholls writes: > : On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 08:15 +1200, Andrew Turner wrote: > : > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:53:12 -0600 (MDT) > : > "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : > > : > > In message: <1281869630.24339.63.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> > : > > John Nicholls writes: > : > > : Special thanks to Yohanes Nugroho & Greg Ansley for the fantastic > : > > work : they have done with the FreeBSD port to the AT91SAM9G20. Great > : > > to see : FreeBSD gaining more traction in the embedded World :) > : > > : > : > > : I have a couple of questions, > : > > : > : > > : (1) I noticed a significant performance boost under Linux when > : > > Linux ARM : moved to EABI, are there any plans for a EABI FreeBSD > : > > version? : > : > > : http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort > : > > > : > > People have talked about it, but so far nothing concrete has been > : > > done, to my knowledge. > : > > : > I had a look at this over the weekend. I managed to get a userland > : > compiled with the current abi into single user mode on a kernel > : > compiled with -mabi=aapcs-linux (gnueabi). The main problem I found > : > was the change in packing for structs causing strange behaviour in > : > userland. > : > > : > My plan is to clean up the code and post it somewhere for further > : > testing. > : > : That's great news Andrew! > : > : Debian Linux have dropped support for the old ARM and moved to ARMEL, I > : hope FreeBSD moves in this direction also... > > There was talk about NetBSD making this move too, but I don't know > what became of it. > > I'm guessing it won't be a huge deal to make this work, just a bunch > of elbow grease in the syscalls... > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >