FreeBSD ARM EABI in head

Alie Tan alie at affle.com
Mon Jan 28 10:32:40 UTC 2013


Tried building kernel-toolchain, world and kernel with -DWITH_ARM_EABI and
gcc4.2

my Pi keeps rebooting after uboot, strange... hardly for rme to debug it
since it happens really fast.

Regards,
Alie T


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>wrote:

> I have finished merging in my changes from the ARM EABI project branch
> into head. I would appreciate it if people would be able to test it.
>
> To build it you will need a checkout of head no earlier than r245942.
> You can then run the normal build procedure with WITH_ARM_EABI set, for
> example:
> make TARGET_ARCH=armv6 -DWITH_ARM_EABI buildworld
> make TARGET_ARCH=armv6 -DWITH_ARM_EABI buildkernel TARGET=RPI-B
>
> If your kernel config includes DDB you will need to set WITH_ARM_EABI
> when building your kernel to get backtrace support.
>
> I have tested the ARM EABI branch on arm and armv6 and the head merge on
> armv6 and expect these two to mostly work. As I have no access to any
> big-endian ARM hardware I have been unable to test there.
>
> There are currently three known issues:
> * No clang support - this should be fixed soon, I'm waiting on another
>   patch to go into head first.
> * No gdb - I'm testing a fix for this.
> * No bind utils - for some reason the bind tools, e.g. dig, segfault in
>   the sig_wait syscall.
>
> Andrew
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