Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 23:18:24 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RPi2 support... Message-ID: <06FA4840-4211-4708-9F70-516F15DE9EB2@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <B018348D-F24D-4E3C-8B8A-CE55890BC5A4@mail.turbofuzz.com> References: <0FD2F2B4EF6E490B9DB6CEF1119ECB70@ad.peach.ne.jp> <2DD4D1CE-E05B-44D7-B396-92BB4CD1D98D@kientzle.com> <B018348D-F24D-4E3C-8B8A-CE55890BC5A4@mail.turbofuzz.com>
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> On May 9, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seeing as how integral Crochet is to building FreeBSD/ARM, I was just curious what the roadmap for it is. Is it going to enter the FreeBSD tree as an additional build tool, or is there some plan to eventually have “make release” simply cross-build for the various ARM platforms with the Crochet arguments / build options being subsumed into that, or… ? Actually, I disagree that Crochet is “integral” to building FreeBSD/ARM. What most people really want is to just download a pre-built image, and Glen has done great work towards getting “Official FreeBSD images” available for the most popular boards. Official package support for ARM also sounds like it’s getting closer. This is all great stuff. It does, incidentally, reduce some of the need for a tool like Crochet, though I think Crochet definitely continues to have a role. In particular, Crochet provides a variety of customization options that I doubt “make release” will ever support. Being developed on github, Crochet also makes it easy for people to contribute new board support. This will allow Crochet to help iron out support for new boards, as recently happened with RPi2 and ZedBoard. For the future: I would love to see Crochet gain robust support for installing packages as part of the build (there is some support today but it’s not as robust as I’d like) and I would also love for Crochet to be able to run without root privileges. Timhelp
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