Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:39:11 -0400 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone Message-ID: <FF673FAC-0D81-46F9-902B-E434AE775BFB@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=jM-G7%2BCO6wzv4SacremEybO6mTWAR_7fz2h%2BtOMGK-A@mail.gmail.com> References: <3B16A2E5-C92B-4248-BE98-DD5C1194CB05@freebsd.org> <CALCpEUGY-RNq1BoChYeVR%2Bf8Tfm-=pfyNncRzKOwV9hfuFKTcg@mail.gmail.com> <86vc6hpb5r.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <CAJ-VmoksuRiSnRYyQ=TYAqXDsRw4TiwrvMgk_jkE1Qb2=HqJdA@mail.gmail.com> <8DC27DAB-FC30-4152-A408-4D666AD15875@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=jM-G7%2BCO6wzv4SacremEybO6mTWAR_7fz2h%2BtOMGK-A@mail.gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_3A88E57E-E54A-4F9A-B4B2-142891E34F9B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On May 17, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > This makes it really difficult to potentially support building FreeBSD > images on non-FreeBSD platforms. Maybe not. Even non-FreeBSD platforms should be able to download the FreeBSD package from an HTTP server somewhere. That package file is ultimately just a tar archive with the boot bits inside it. > It also means that people can do things like have out of date builds > of things like bootloaders, mkuboot/mkuzimage, etc. Building from source doesn't protect you from being out of date. I've been bitten several times by having several-months-old U-Boot or FreeBSD sources on my system. > I'm likely going to go the opposite way with my stuff. Ie, if I do > need bootloaders and such, I'll be packaging ... Great! It's always good to have different people trying different approaches to see how they work. Have you given any thought to how to keep bundled sources up-to-date? For example, U-Boot support for new platforms can evolve very quickly sometimes. Tim --Apple-Mail=_3A88E57E-E54A-4F9A-B4B2-142891E34F9B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRl5KQAAoJEGMNyGo0rfFBft8IANTyJTQukAF4MqHIpFFFF57u t1ymIofZbO9l7Ko9sfsP/xsLu5rbTrIFKuPge8u426LHrGGVU4unGCvVZyy1DVGF aGquQ7gBr4WUL/fkTCXtz6+ICQNNG00oncIy7dXtu21nXWN0lHUELhLE6hVtiWe8 h76kJzFJvH+YXQVXnu+1Zm9W49T6Uqfd0tSox6kaMfw9AFmUcGVx9RQBA0e9knf3 xwxyWQjGQry8cKGoTS7otJZiDUyWwLMfyZv/MF1PH0M/5DAxVAam5efIzIjsDZYP wKTwnUxRaWyQeIK1bpQTWEZvp9EoxG8RIC2JUm00hDnyJCOBcsl8HwuGp+VroBo= =jamg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_3A88E57E-E54A-4F9A-B4B2-142891E34F9B--
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