Today's Crochet fixes
Tom Everett
tom at khubla.com
Sun Apr 20 18:41:03 UTC 2014
I'm building a wandboard image with your latest sources right now. I'll
let you know if it fails.
Are the updated xdev instructions valid for FreeBSD-10 also, or just for
FreeBSD-11?
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I just pushed a couple of changes to Crochet that I thought folks would be
> especially interested in:
>
> * All boards: Corrected instructions for building xdev tools.
>
> The instructions printed out by Crochet now include the right
> flags for building a correct GCC cross-compiler. With this, I've
> been able to build a working BeagleBone image on a fresh stock install of
> FreeBSD/amd64 11-CURRENT r260789.
>
> * BeagleBone: Added a "copy-to-emmc.sh" script to root's home directory
>
> After logging in as root, try: /bin/sh copy-to-emmc.sh
>
> It will print scary warnings about erasing things. If you go ahead,
> it will reformat the eMMC and copy the system from SD to eMMC.
> Suggestions for improvements appreciated.
>
>
> Things I'm interested in help with:
>
> * Updating U-Boot for BeagleBone to a newer snapshot
> (Including migrating Patrick Kelsey's patches to support eMMC booting)
>
> * Building U-Boot with clang (Winston Smith claims it "just works"
> if you have new enough U-Boot sources; I've not yet tried to reproduce
> this.
> If it works as well as I hope, it will take a while to update U-Boot
> sources
> for each Crochet-supported board.)
>
> * We're using geom_label for BeagleBone fstab now; would appreciate
> if someone could add this to the stock kernel configs.
>
> * Diane Bruce fixed the sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port so it
> builds again. I've not yet tested to see if Crochet can generate a
> bootable image using it. It definitely lacks the newer patches that
> are in the Crochet-built version of U-Boot for BeagleBone. If this
> can be cleaned up, it should provide a template for migrating
> U-Boot for other boards into ports.
>
> * Testing other boards: RPi, PandaBoard, WandBoard, etc.
>
> If you play with any of the above, please let me know what you find.
> As always, patches are very welcome, pull requests even more so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
>
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