From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Apr 21 22:36:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7D1B1834B for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:36:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x233.google.com (mail-vk0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A74212E2 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:36:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x233.google.com with SMTP id e185so115588465vkb.1 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:36:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to; bh=wZtazerG1hEGOkN32jB/BtzwJjTB1+XUmo9ZZBQVIBE=; b=RY2YaKdFQYk37eISft5cO5cjOs9Fs0e03RHhtK8hO5SJspmZwvSsICgKq4YNNtY0iK fG1s+YMBMaBL53YlgURzfe/IFqJvj1AhPbsmJukYqHiYwOZo4H0qaRG/DMg4vh7aEToa ULeQ2RJqIPFvHnN6KDcuabCKoGYu+KutIsTJMuoDomn9Gj4e7FJ7TWHyQY7ajs2n/yXm tc17EZti7PKA6zIZ5Xigml0kktN5InhoTX5uW9KETGT/DdM3F5Flhj/0PMugMPV41eG/ bztrtLNl2wKiTTqJuo5LxrsOMP4hEYRsbOeNAIg8jKIQPIOM3vznapuGTnD4/wYaemo1 KQJw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to; bh=wZtazerG1hEGOkN32jB/BtzwJjTB1+XUmo9ZZBQVIBE=; b=YkhGDepIaToQtqR+HPuqEhbgFBm/vYNxN72XAmE7Tmw1hG8BApEAMxioq+BQnrADWC ZKjdSlUhXWk+GxCEF7w1ZzrbkiwxaA6BbNWx4vxSu5/DICepsjZtEReVMf7tttf/dxCL q4nU8akMH57sDYzxRujHZ0M7AacChGXPC/oz5J8rPhI7Kp6zd03l4mMjKXcr3HrE+FUw T7nm4WF5BVGN/4z86CGFYMjmqX9w7uhi1VR4U/AyKW+8loJPYjR2RdeZZL5jHJSv3Ioc 2ACqxteIL2G8XwkWwbsESOrTvqPEiSB4um+ubUnhpImHzbpSNhebct0d318tkDAaMOJZ xxRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FV0hNgDzWSBDK3XmUBLHleOzHKwwas6QOdAVFQTgHUWHtQRTZaqoFDmIQQ44a+gbvowr7jiOobY5kTwAA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.31.8.205 with SMTP id 196mr9256334vki.144.1461278217470; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.31.61.1 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:36:57 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Barebox? From: Russell Haley To: freebsd-arm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:36:58 -0000 The conversation about u-boot for Orange Pi One re-opened a curiosity for me. A friend of mine recently got Barebox/GUNLinux working with an old imx53 SOM I have (I've got like 10 of them! woo hoo!) and on the surface it seems to do the same thing as we use u-boot for: loads an executable from a fat partition. It seems to have support for quite a few modern arm SOMS. At $work, they have used Barebox to boot qnx too. Has anyone used Barebox to boot FreeBSD before? I ask because the fractured structure of u-boot seems to cause many issues. I don't see the Barebox project suffering from the same level of forking, but maybe I just haven't seen it yet? Cheers, Russ