Port: U-Boot for BeagleBone

[Tim Kientzle]

On May 18, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:56 -0400
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle at 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?
>> * Suggestions for improving it?
> 
> Could you try installing devel/cross-binutils and devel/cross-gcc using
> TGTARCH=arm and TGTABI=none-eabi and using these to build u-boot? It
> would mean the user doesn't need to have xdev set up.

I'll definitely give that a try.

More importantly than the user, I'm concerned about the
package-building cluster.  One of the goals here is to
get the packages built automatically so that not everybody
has to build the boot loaders themselves.

I've not used the devel/cross-ZZZ tools before, so
it will take me a little while to experiment.  Ideally,
the U-Boot port would just require the cross tools.

Tim