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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2013 07:52:30 -0500
From:      Diane Bruce <db@db.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone
Message-ID:  <20130518125230.GA70638@night.db.net>
In-Reply-To: <BB920CD7-70A5-434F-9B8E-BCD7B79395F5@bsdimp.com>
References:  <3B16A2E5-C92B-4248-BE98-DD5C1194CB05@freebsd.org> <20130518100512.57c47fe6@bender> <BB920CD7-70A5-434F-9B8E-BCD7B79395F5@bsdimp.com>

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On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 07:59:34AM -0400, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On May 18, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:56 -0400
> > Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm trying to move the actual building of boot loaders out of Crochet
> >> and into FreeBSD ports.
> >> 
> >> Here's the first attempt at such a port (many thanks to Diane Bruce
> >> for patiently tutoring me through this):
> >> 
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/u-boot-beaglebone.tgz
> >> 
> >> I'd appreciate any feedback:
> >> * Can you build this?
> >> * Suggestions for improving it?
> > 
> > Could you try installing devel/cross-binutils and devel/cross-gcc using
> > TGTARCH=arm and TGTABI=none-eabi and using these to build u-boot? It
> > would mean the user doesn't need to have xdev set up.
> 
> And might mean fewer patches...


It would then be trivial to integrate that into the port itself.
Or depending on what is needed, only use the devel/cross* tools on
< FreeBSD 10 etc.

P.S. I'm now on FreeBSD-arm, no need to cc me specifically.

Hopefully Tim and I will meet up again today.

> 
> Warner
> 
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