current status

[Jaw-Shiang Joshua Huang]

Hello, 

I am not the one in FreeBSD community to do arm porting.
I am just interesting in it and have done some survey on FreeBSD.
It should be a little useful to share with anyone who is interested in this topic.

About cross-compiler:
You can check /usr/ports/devel/arm* packages.  I am using arm-elf-gcc295 and arm-elf-binutils.  I don't know what is the difference between elf and rtems packages.

About FreeBSD arm developement:
You can check with the url: http://pages.infinit.net/sepotvin/
There is some patch about an incomplete arm porting(in my opinion, I am not sure yet).  But I think its target is SA1100.  I guess that the patch is for FreeBSD 5.x only.  I have try to compile it.  After adding some unreference symbols, it can link to an image.

About FreeBSD arm porting progress:
You can reference the url: http://www.javagear.com/freebsd/index.html
There is a lot of information about the todo list for arm porting.

About ARM assembly programming information:
There is a great on-line document at url: 
http://www.peter-cockerell.net:8080/aalp/html/frames.html
There is also a similar japanese version at url:
http://www.nk.rim.or.jp/~jun/slasm/arm00.html
Though I am not japanese and don'e know japanese, I still think it is very valuable.  Especially this is for Zaurus, it should be more useful for you.

Wish things above are useful.

Joshua at Taiwan.

Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> said: 
> Is there a status available on the current effort?  Is there a task list.
> things that must be done to realize this?  If anything has been done yet,
> I'm very interested in seeing the current status (I don't expect that a
> lot's been done yet, I'm not expecting this to be handed to me).
> 
> I'd really like to see FreeBSD run on the Sharp Zaurus.  It has the
> resources available,  in plenty, and it seems (to me) to make a sexy
> target.
> 
> I'm not asking for help; I want to work on it myself, I want to assemble
> whatever parts that have already been accomplished.  Most powerfully, I do
> not myself know in detail any hit list of items that must be accomplished
> (hopefully in correct order).  Just getting such a list would be a great
> thing, I think.
> 
> Any pointers would be very appreciated.  Until I get some reply, I'm going
> to start making a cross-compiler and binutils.  I'm subscribed to this
> list now.
> 
> 
> 
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Joshua Huang  --  joshuah at synology.com
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