FreeBSD EABI ARM & Network boot image howto?

[Nataraj S Narayan]

Hi Warner and other friends

I am on at91sam9263ek , presently working on arm-linux-uclibc.

May I have some HOWTO as to getting the kernel and FS on FreeBSD for the
said board? Hopefully your work on at91sam9260ek would suit me? Of course, I
do have to source installed.

I am using  FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE ,only at the  user level mainly. I find
FreeBSD quite good for cross compiling QT and freepascal (www.freepascal.org)
code for arm-linux.

Warm regards

Nataraj

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:04 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> In message: <1281907405.27697.19.camel at xeon.thinmesh.com>
>             John Nicholls <john at thinlinx.com> writes:
> : On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 08:15 +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> : > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:53:12 -0600 (MDT)
> : > "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> : >
> : > > In message: <1281869630.24339.63.camel at xeon.thinmesh.com>
> : > >             John Nicholls <john at thinlinx.com> writes:
> : > > : Special thanks to Yohanes Nugroho & Greg Ansley for the fantastic
> : > > work : they have done with the FreeBSD port to the AT91SAM9G20. Great
> : > > to see : FreeBSD gaining more traction in the embedded World :)
> : > > :
> : > > : I have a couple of questions,
> : > > :
> : > > : (1) I noticed a significant performance boost under Linux when
> : > > Linux ARM : moved to EABI, are there any plans for a EABI FreeBSD
> : > > version? :
> : > > : http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
> : > >
> : > > People have talked about it, but so far nothing concrete has been
> : > > done, to my knowledge.
> : >
> : > I had a look at this over the weekend. I managed to get a userland
> : > compiled with the current abi into single user mode on a kernel
> : > compiled with -mabi=aapcs-linux (gnueabi). The main problem I found
> : > was the change in packing for structs causing strange behaviour in
> : > userland.
> : >
> : > My plan is to clean up the code and post it somewhere for further
> : > testing.
> :
> : That's great news Andrew!
> :
> : Debian Linux have dropped support for the old ARM and moved to ARMEL, I
> : hope FreeBSD moves in this direction also...
>
> There was talk about NetBSD making this move too, but I don't know
> what became of it.
>
> I'm guessing it won't be a huge deal to make this work, just a bunch
> of elbow grease in the syscalls...
>
> Warner
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