Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:16:28 +0530 From: Nataraj S Narayan <natarajsn@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD EABI ARM & Network boot image howto? Message-ID: <AANLkTik4P8svSucE9jsh9DqnkhQPvjq-rWcHTHv6odUP@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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 <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <1281907405.27697.19.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> > John Nicholls <john@thinlinx.com> 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" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > : > > : > > In message: <1281869630.24339.63.camel@xeon.thinmesh.com> > : > > John Nicholls <john@thinlinx.com> 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" >
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