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Subject: Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to move the actual building of boot loaders out of Crochet and=
 into FreeBSD ports.
>
> Here's the first attempt at such a port (many thanks to Diane Bruce for p=
atiently tutoring me through this):
>
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/u-boot-beaglebone.tgz
>
> I'd appreciate any feedback:
>  * Can you build this?

Yes.

Its fetching things and I can see uboot generated in work/u-boot-2013.04/
>  * Suggestions for improving it?
>
> If this works, I plan to use it as a template for U-Boot for other platfo=
rms (RaspberryPi, Pandaboard, etc.).  Crochet would then rely on these port=
s instead of building boot loaders itself.  Even better, these will eventua=
lly be built by the package system and available through packages.

sweet!

cheers,
Hiren
>
> Tim
>
> P.S.  Looking for a ports committer to work with me on getting these into=
 the ports tree.
>