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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:27:15 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
Subject:   Re: Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone...
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On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:11 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:

>=20
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 21:04 , Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports =
too=85
>>>=20
>>> I heard some rumblings from the ports team about
>>> setting QEmu arm VMs to do the builds.  I'm
>>> sure they could use the help.
>>>=20
>>>> It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel =
that boots on at least all the armv6 processors...
>>>=20
>>> If someone -- hint, hint -- created GENERIC in arm/config we
>>> could try that.  ;-)
>>=20
>> I've just gotten as far as creating a ATMEL config...
>>=20
>> The armv6 stuff is closer, but still suffers from having non-generic =
interrupt handlers, shutdown code, etc.  It isn't especially HARD work, =
but there's a lot of icky details to plow through to get to a unified =
kernel.
>>=20
>=20
> What's the rough outline of what's necessary to do that?  I can work =
on it.

(1) Finish unifying the initarm()
(2) Unify the interrupt code
(3) unify the shutdown/startup code
(4) polish off any of the dangling loose ends that compiling all the =
armv6 together.
(0) write a GENERICV6 config file

Warner=



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