Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 15:26:16 -0700 From: Thomas Skibo <thomasskibo@sbcglobal.net> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Heads-up regarding arm/armv6 snapshot builds Message-ID: <BEFB7EC8-860D-434E-A7E4-51689D6E854C@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <20150509205903.GV94075@hub.FreeBSD.org> References: <20150506015613.GF67741@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20150509194343.GU94075@hub.FreeBSD.org> <928D9005-E868-42FE-AD6F-C58568D9DB58@sbcglobal.net> <20150509205903.GV94075@hub.FreeBSD.org>
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> On May 9, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:55:24PM -0700, Thomas Skibo wrote: >>=20 >>> On May 9, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> An important note for people using the Zedboard: >>> A port of u-boot for this board does not currently exist in the = Ports >>> Collection, and as a result, support for building the ZEDBOARD image = has >>> been dropped. If someone is already working on a port of this = u-boot, >>> please let me know. Otherwise, I will work on the port as soon as >>> possible. >>=20 >> Hi, Glen. >>=20 >> I have been supporting Zedboard in crochet. Crochet builds u-boot >> for the Zedboard by lightly patching u-boot source from Xilinx >> (https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx). I have one more patch to >> send Tim so that crochet always builds u-boot from release v2014.4 >> because the latest release (v2015.1) broke some things which will >> require other tweaks to crochet. >>=20 >=20 > This should be ported to the ports tree, after which it will be easy = to > add Zedboard support back. (See the existing sysutils/u-boot-* ports > for examples.) >=20 >> But, I wonder if there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD on the >> Zedboard to warrant you going to the trouble to build snap-shots. >>=20 >=20 > Although I do not have one of these boards, I would still like to > provide snapshot and release builds for it. There is very little > resource overhead to do so. >=20 > Glen Okay. I will take a look into creating a sysutils/u-boot-zynq port to = support Zedboard and a few other boards as well. =E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94 Thomas Skibo thomasskibo@sbcglobal.net
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