Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:08:16 -0400 From: gnn@freebsd.org To: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> Cc: db@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone Message-ID: <86vc6hpb5r.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <CALCpEUGY-RNq1BoChYeVR%2Bf8Tfm-=pfyNncRzKOwV9hfuFKTcg@mail.gmail.com> References: <3B16A2E5-C92B-4248-BE98-DD5C1194CB05@freebsd.org> <CALCpEUGY-RNq1BoChYeVR%2Bf8Tfm-=pfyNncRzKOwV9hfuFKTcg@mail.gmail.com>
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At Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:33 -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, 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? > > Yes. > > Its fetching things and I can see uboot generated in > work/u-boot-2013.04/ It claims to require a cross building compiler in /usr/obj so I'm waiting for that to build on my laptop. > > * Suggestions for improving it? > > > > If this works, I plan to use it as a template for U-Boot for other > > platforms (RaspberryPi, Pandaboard, etc.). Crochet would then > > rely on these ports instead of building boot loaders itself. Even > > better, these will eventually be built by the package system and > > available through packages. > > sweet! > Works for me. Thanks to both of you. Best, George
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