From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 27 21:39:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arm@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4518A3E8; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:39:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 170CC2635; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:39:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V3CDL-0007cx-S0; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:39:48 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r6RLdj6T015310; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:39:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+ovnPP89WNisAEbRRkkW8L Subject: Re: Adding options to RPI-B From: Ian Lepore To: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: References: <2C57A72F-0CB3-41DF-B0E5-1509348128BD@freebsd.org> <42C259D6-F652-417A-80B5-536893D6D642@felyko.com> <25D75461-E6FB-43C3-86AE-A513B02FA00D@freebsd.org> <877D7426-64E2-4451-AECC-073664A70AC1@freebsd.org> <1B3F0A21-D982-4D0C-965D-16739DB27003@freebsd.org> <5C14022C-FA7C-444B-83A7-745E8D94FB10@felyko.com> <007139FF-50B3-45A3-905A-3881BAF95F10@freebsd.org> <978DD006-370E-4823-ADCF-A8BB474A18FB@felyko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:39:45 -0600 Message-ID: <1374961185.45247.11.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:39:52 -0000 On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 11:23 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > On 27 Jul 2013, at 09:17, Tim Kientzle 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. > > This is committed now. > > I've also added the beastie support to loader.rc.sample > (commented out). > > For the record, the beastie menu works just fine on > BeagleBone over a serial console. > > I want to do some more testing before I start enabling > loader.rc by default for Crochet-built RPi and BeagleBone > images. > > Tim I was using the forth stuff (but not the beastie menu) with RPi and BB a few months ago, back when you were first adding FDT support to the loader. I couldn't find a way to use the fdt command from forth-ish config files, and I couldn't understand the existing forth code enough to figure out how to plumb access to it with some new keyword or something. I had no problems loading modules and setting tuneables and in general doing all the stuff with loader.conf on arm that I've been doing on x86 for years. -- Ian