Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:49:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, sepotvin@videotron.ca, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD arm port Message-ID: <199811012149.OAA27625@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810301036260.366-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Oct 30, 98 10:43:04 am
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> > > Also, some pointers as to what are the main steps for doing such a port > > > (FreeBSD port as a whole) would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Crucial to bringing up any new port is the ability to tighten the build/ > > debug cycle. If you have an emulator, that's excellent. If you can > > boot diskless, that's almost as good. Copying kernels onto floppies and > > lugging them back and forth gets old _really_ quick. > > The best debugging environment is definately a simulator (but only if it > has good hooks into gdb). Netbooting with serial-line debugging runs a > close second. I think for ARM, the best debugging environment would be the ARM system on a PCI card, which Intel makes available. Plug the card into an existing Intel/Alpha FreeBSD box, and do your loading and debugging via a device driver. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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