wandboard / imx6 / exynos4 / cortex-a9 "wrong-endian bug" fixed

[Tim Kientzle]

On Feb 2, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 2, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 18:25 -0700, Tom Everett wrote:
>>> I can confirm that a crochet image for Wandboard no longer crashes after
>>> this fix.  It doesn't mount the FS yet, but that's a known issue, noted
>>> here:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/issues/29
>> 
>> That thread mentions needing to build a u-boot for wandboard.  Here's a
>> patchset for doing that.  Apply this in your ports/sysutils dir, using:
>> 
>> patch -p0 <u-boot-wandboard.diff
>> 
>> This was copied from Tim's beaglebone work and changed a bit for
>> wandboard.  
>> 
>> I've been meaning to ask about how we should handle this.  Do we want a
>> u-boot port for every board, or is there some way to parameterize a
>> single port so that it applies the right set of patches, or what?  I'm
>> not very savvy about ports.
> 
> Usually there's a master port, and slave ports that parameterize. When we talked about this at BSDcan, I believe that was the model that was suggested for this problem..

Does that work when there’s a different source distro for
many of the ports?  (Not to mention different patches for
each one.)

Tim

P.S.  I started a U-Boot port for BeagleBone but my
time has evaporated.  If anyone wants to take that
over and extend it for other boards, step right up…