Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:56:16 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: Building an ARM/RPI-B release (hacked) on CURRENT/AMD64. Message-ID: <94BF7018-052C-430D-85D8-CAE14EA63270@grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <1397767811.1124.289.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <9FDD6F0E-B2A9-48D9-A3E4-181868995FDA@grondar.org> <EC41E53F-96EF-4652-9A02-D49448D104BE@kientzle.com> <20140417103117.GE44138@cicely7.cicely.de> <1397738961.1124.157.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <ED243420-AC33-4D90-A23D-0266C142F3C1@grondar.org> <1397761628.1124.245.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <7196A020-54E1-42FA-B8A0-25B145B0E412@bsdimp.com> <54D788B2-BD68-4F75-86FF-0C4E71D9B75A@grondar.org> <1397767811.1124.289.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 17 Apr 2014, at 21:50, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 20:54 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: >> I’m guessing (more like hoping) that once the boot bits work, they’ll be pretty stable for a given platform for a while, and the .img file could be kept under src/release/… somewhere. This way, it doesn’t matter if some humongous GCC port is used for cross-building; this would be only needed when the boot-bits change. >> <thinking> > > I'm not very familiar with crochet, but I'm confused now... Tim K. is > the creator of crochet, and he's the maintainer of the > u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port, which uses the gcc cross-compiler from > ports. So did Tim not use his own excellent port in crochet? No, and it may have something to do with ports/lang/arm-*-(binutils|gcc) being a bit unstable (By that I mean they kinda came-and-went, and which to use was quite a guessing game. This is now moot as there is now the useful-looking gcc-arm-ports/devel/embedded which seems to enjoy a lot of TLC!). M -- Mark R V Murray [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBU1A/9d58vKOKE6LNAQqzQwP/XMyZn0bouHQN82MK7piiws0m3eHh2Ebd K6USJLYJ0xwxs0wzQA3Bt1WrLZm3RC3J/H+bMR+gekKyV0PiUxrdhorB447BvOGn gvknm/5R9r6vmNJqGcTC2A+ECpB6XDlr1C8YNQaFV/Z1Mwyu/EMeOUIR67JNLbxd 6wJ7JfvHRYU= =x4qU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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