FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available

[Warner Losh]

On Dec 26, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:55:12 -0500
> Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 07:48:30PM +0000, Andrew Turner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:25:09 -0800
>>> Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 26, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The third RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now
>>>>> available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
>>>>> powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.
>>>> 
>>>> What do we need to include some ARM images?
>>>> 
>>>> At a minimum, I would love to get an official RC3 build for RPi.
>>> 
>>> I would suggest we could build a tarball of armv6 userland and an
>>> RPi image to dd to an SD card.
>>> 
>>> Building the former should be straight forward.
>>> 
>>> For the latter, assuming the release target is unable to build the
>>> required U-Boot binary, we could use crochet. I'm not sure if we can
>>> use a tarball as the input for this to guarantee both are the same.
>>> 
>> 
>> The problem with using crochet is that it requires git on the build
>> machine, which just adds to the minimum dependencies needed, both for
>> crochet itself, and (last I was aware) an external uboot tree.
> 
> Github allows you to use svn to checkout a git repo with svn. There is
> an option under the clone url to set it to subversion.
> 
> U-Boot should just be a tarball, if it is a git repo we would need to
> make it a tarball for the release to supply the source as it is GPL.
> 
>> Maybe it is just more sensible to take what crochet is doing, and make
>> that into a release target.
> 
> Yes, but I assume this is not feasible for 10.0.

likely. Might be better to nominate one board, create a userland tarball for that board as well as an image for 10.0-RELEASE and see if we can get crochet building images from that userland tarball before 10.1-R. We should at least create an artifact now, even if its usefulness is in the future... So a limited release for 10, if it isn't too late, for arm would be great.

Warner