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At Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:33 -0700,
hiren panchasara wrote:
> 
> 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 patiently 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/

It claims to require a cross building compiler in /usr/obj so I'm
waiting for that to build on my laptop. 

> >  * Suggestions for improving it?
> >
> > If this works, I plan to use it as a template for U-Boot for other
> > platforms (RaspberryPi, Pandaboard, etc.).  Crochet would then
> > rely on these ports instead of building boot loaders itself.  Even
> > better, these will eventually be built by the package system and
> > available through packages.
> 
> sweet!
> 

Works for me.  Thanks to both of you.

Best,
George