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Date:      Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:01:09 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ubldr vs ubldr.bin?
Message-ID:  <35BEBE2A-429E-4A56-9A01-5EBB2CF26E60@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <1437019414.1334.355.camel@freebsd.org>
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> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 20:15 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ubldr.bin is a raw executable image
>>> (no elf headers) which is self-relocating and can be loaded at any
>>> address.  …  a common armv6[hf] userland that runs
>>> on any board.  Previously the single userland difference between various
>>> arm boards is that UBLDR_LOADADDR was different for each board.
>> 
>> Wonderful!  Nice work.
>> 
>> 
>>> … and ubldr is still
>>> being built only for compatibility with people that have older u-boot
>>> installed.
>> 
>> Hmmm….  I wonder how Crochet should handle this.  Plenty of folks use Crochet to build 10-STABLE and 10.1 images, so we have to be a little careful about jumping ahead with new features that are only available in 11-CURRENT.
>> 
>> Any plans to MFC this?
>> 
>> Tim
> 
> It has all been MFC'd to 10-stable around the end of May and will be in
> 10.2.  The only missing piece is changes to the u-boot ports.  I got
> started on that, got like just wandboard done (but not comitted, I'm not
> actually a ports committer so I have to get someone's approval to
> commit), then this crazy-deadline project came up at work.

What changes are needed to the U-Boot ports?

Tim




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