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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:11:13 -0400
From:      George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.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...
Message-ID:  <90FB30E0-569E-4DBF-ACCB-36C723A4E937@neville-neil.com>
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On Oct 12, 2012, at 21:04 , Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>=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

What's the rough outline of what's necessary to do that?  I can work on =
it.

Best,
George





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