From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 03:33:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0961F106566C for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:33:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B396F8FC0C for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ieak10 with SMTP id k10so4735629iea.13 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:33:25 -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=JnPpvCmJh57hRZtWla9nKDQIAhidMjN5zC+0Lf7Qzqc=; b=PyiVgpEqSumb48HBTknexwtnuHFaYHGQLqNMfa3w2id/dmt3Vk65WcmVAY1czAkntq Ok8+z1w8uhZtNNTKJBRcX5xukT0xfeIinFPP2kp1hnJhZ7AxRAuwhfOCqQUR+PoNjNX8 ur5cHnN5hmvOfgtz3KC6m/ceAIDk9oIOwDrk3rY6qf8V9pglJNZUhQuuEeucPVr8cyTS ph7Diia55ALXtLGT/rwO2J37yBUU14Xfw5DW4OJAwxKcW3K9fisj9ms4kuvIQWEG9ecu MF7EUac0Sn0AYKsreTPoxYh/mD0TQTbypjWnsFynmOOsrfmTsQW0MPic14llTgU6vD/G LJMg== Received: by 10.50.191.131 with SMTP id gy3mr553996igc.13.1348889604845; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:33:24 -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 u4sm1429695igw.6.2012.09.28.20.33.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <20120929033002.GA18294@johnny.reilly.home> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:33:22 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1A445C08-A529-4060-82D8-2BFA4BAD1DF3@bsdimp.com> References: <0DCAC001-FF06-431A-A486-2B50BE913B0D@bsdimp.com> <7E18623F-3945-4EA0-B332-5A5C717B20F0@kientzle.com> <9896AA3E-D8A0-4CE8-8160-4672AA07388F@cheney.net> <6B74ADD7-3266-4919-BEB4-B10E0C1BAB58@kientzle.com> <5679C679-A434-4714-BE61-4DC093DA7F34@kientzle.com> <034F9446-B2FB-44AD-BDEE-4C2FBAC51796@neville-neil.com> <9E070889-190A-42B1-9B46-94B1AEF2C20E@kientzle.com> <20120929033002.GA18294@johnny.reilly.home> To: Andrew Reilly X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQloYNximAiW296n16QuYCT0woEmMEj7TsuTUNegJMjzbt6TcnDOwNnG1Y9vcV6YH2SmKF+v Cc: arm@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle , George Neville-Neil Subject: Re: Towards an ARM system-building script 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: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:33:32 -0000 On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:54:59AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>=20 >> On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:18 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote: >>>> Great that you're moving this forwards! I wonder how we can get = this into >>>> the main tree so that it gets the appropriate help and testing. = Any ideas >>>> on where you'd want to put this Tim? >>>=20 >>> Once it can handle a couple of boards and I'm convinced >>> it's actually legible and useful to someone other than me, >>> then it could go beside nanobsd. Someday, someday, I'd >>> like to see this used to build "official FreeBSD releases" >>> for some of these boards, but we've all got a bit of work >>> ahead of us before we're ready for that. >>=20 >> Yea. I'd normally lobby for hacks to NanoBSD to make this happen, = but I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the bandwidth to still = be the nanobsd maintainer. >>=20 >>> Needs a better name than beaglebsd, though; it aspires >>> to so much more. ;-) >>=20 >> armv6bsd isn't catchy either. BaSeDarm isn't much better :) >=20 > As an interested bystander looking for an opportunity to get > involved, I'm curious: why the emphasis on "armv6" that I've > seen, regarding these boards that all use processors that are > ARMv7 architecture devices? Sure, armv6 is very similar, but > armv7 is what ARM calls them. armv6 means all armv6 or armv7 processors. Warner=