Heads-up regarding arm/armv6 snapshot builds

[Thomas Skibo]

> On May 9, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:55:24PM -0700, Thomas Skibo wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 9, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> An important note for people using the Zedboard:
>>> A port of u-boot for this board does not currently exist in the Ports
>>> Collection, and as a result, support for building the ZEDBOARD image has
>>> been dropped.  If someone is already working on a port of this u-boot,
>>> please let me know.  Otherwise, I will work on the port as soon as
>>> possible.
>> 
>> Hi, Glen.
>> 
>> I have been supporting Zedboard in crochet.  Crochet builds u-boot
>> for the Zedboard by lightly patching u-boot source from Xilinx
>> (https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx).  I have one more patch to
>> send Tim so that crochet always builds u-boot from release v2014.4
>> because the latest release (v2015.1) broke some things which will
>> require other tweaks to crochet.
>> 
> 
> This should be ported to the ports tree, after which it will be easy to
> add Zedboard support back.  (See the existing sysutils/u-boot-* ports
> for examples.)
> 
>> But, I wonder if there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD on the
>> Zedboard to warrant you going to the trouble to build snap-shots.
>> 
> 
> Although I do not have one of these boards, I would still like to
> provide snapshot and release builds for it.  There is very little
> resource overhead to do so.
> 
> Glen

Okay.  I will take a look into creating a sysutils/u-boot-zynq port to support Zedboard and a few other boards as well.

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Thomas Skibo
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