From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 1 13:49:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11507 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11501 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06889; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:49:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd006879; Sun Nov 1 14:49:11 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27625; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:49:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811012149.OAA27625@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD arm port To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:49:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, sepotvin@videotron.ca, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Oct 30, 98 10:43:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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