A couple of questions

[Alexander Timoshenko]

Olivier Houchard (cognet at ci0.org) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:51:15PM +0300, Alexander Timoshenko wrote:
> >     Sorry, for distrubing the silence of this templ^W mailing list :) I
> > have a couple of questions regarding arm port of freebsd. I'm playing
> > with intel development board these days and going to try to run freebsd
> > on it, but want to know more before i start.
> > 
> >     - How to build image suitable for loading on developemnt board. Are
> >       there any instructions? Or could someone share his scripts with
> >       me?
> > 
> >     - Could someone describe the generic cycle of development for arm
> >       CPU? e.g: edit/compile/build image/reset board. What kind of
> >       bootloader should i use?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance. Sorry for the kind of lame questions.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It all depends of what your board is.
> Generally speaking, you won't be able to run FreeBSD, because each board is
> too different.
> What is on the CVS should support the Assabet board, as this is what Simics
> emulate, however I have no clue on how to get FreeBSD on it, as Simics was
> loading the kernel for me.
> These days, I'm working with an IQ31244 (if you have an IQ80321, it should be
> fine too). I cross-build the kernel on an i386 box (gcc/binutils in the base
> does not support arm, but I provide patches for that), and use Redboot to
> bootp, download the kernel via TFTP and run it (for some definition of run).

    Thanks for answers. Where could i get your patches(if it is
possible, of course)?  Are devel/arm-elf-* ports is good enough for
kernel  cross-building?


-- 
gonzo