Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:40:55 -0600 From: Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD ARM <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Today's Crochet fixes Message-ID: <CAB3ij4AsPkQRdTEgsYO7jXz5C79G_ERQh57zQ1wCJVAtWKSR9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <24AD766C-FA11-45AD-94B3-7C99EBF53FD0@freebsd.org> References: <CADH-AwHGYEWJc17PVCvtUtXBb7_sRVLdRoXe0f2jd42R9P8xqw@mail.gmail.com> <24AD766C-FA11-45AD-94B3-7C99EBF53FD0@freebsd.org>
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I'm building a wandboard image with your latest sources right now. I'll let you know if it fails. Are the updated xdev instructions valid for FreeBSD-10 also, or just for FreeBSD-11? On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote: > I just pushed a couple of changes to Crochet that I thought folks would be > especially interested in: > > * All boards: Corrected instructions for building xdev tools. > > The instructions printed out by Crochet now include the right > flags for building a correct GCC cross-compiler. With this, I've > been able to build a working BeagleBone image on a fresh stock install of > FreeBSD/amd64 11-CURRENT r260789. > > * BeagleBone: Added a "copy-to-emmc.sh" script to root's home directory > > After logging in as root, try: /bin/sh copy-to-emmc.sh > > It will print scary warnings about erasing things. If you go ahead, > it will reformat the eMMC and copy the system from SD to eMMC. > Suggestions for improvements appreciated. > > > Things I'm interested in help with: > > * Updating U-Boot for BeagleBone to a newer snapshot > (Including migrating Patrick Kelsey's patches to support eMMC booting) > > * Building U-Boot with clang (Winston Smith claims it "just works" > if you have new enough U-Boot sources; I've not yet tried to reproduce > this. > If it works as well as I hope, it will take a while to update U-Boot > sources > for each Crochet-supported board.) > > * We're using geom_label for BeagleBone fstab now; would appreciate > if someone could add this to the stock kernel configs. > > * Diane Bruce fixed the sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port so it > builds again. I've not yet tested to see if Crochet can generate a > bootable image using it. It definitely lacks the newer patches that > are in the Crochet-built version of U-Boot for BeagleBone. If this > can be cleaned up, it should provide a template for migrating > U-Boot for other boards into ports. > > * Testing other boards: RPi, PandaBoard, WandBoard, etc. > > If you play with any of the above, please let me know what you find. > As always, patches are very welcome, pull requests even more so. > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding - Douglas MacArthur
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