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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:05:10 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Adding options to RPI-B
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On 27 Jul 2013, at 09:17, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Here's a proposed patch that installs all of the standard Forth
> files as part of ubldr on ARM.  It does not install a loader.rc,
> however, so it should have no effect per se, other than putting
> a few more files on the image.

Why ? I thought installing loader.rc was the main point.

> I plan to commit this to the FreeBSD tree soon.
> 
> If you're using Crochet, I also just pushed a change to
> Crochet so that it copies all the boot files provided by
> FreeBSD's build, instead of just picking out the
> ubldr and loader.help files.  With the FreeBSD patch,
> this results in all of the Forth files actually being in the image.
> 
> Again:  A system built with these changes should
> function exactly the same since loader.rc is still not
> present.
> 
> To enable loader.conf, first boot the system, then:
>  $ cp /boot/loader.rc.sample /boot/loader.rc
> and reboot.
> 
> With these changes, I've built and booted a BeagleBone
> image that does process loader.conf and seems none
> the worse for it.
> 
> I still need to test on RPi; hope to do that this weekend.
> 
> This should be enough for people to start experimenting
> with the beastie menu on RPi.  Just copy the loader.rc from
> i386 and see what happens.  ;-)


Well, the beastie menu was always overkill on serial consoles :)

--
Rui Paulo




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