RFC: "Crochet" build tool

[Jim Thompson]

On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Werner Thie <werner at thieprojects.ch> wrote:

> Is nanoBSD or tinyBSD fit as basis for a cross platform effort?

No, not really.

They're very x86-specific, but then, so was FreeBSD for the longest time.

Given the recent advances including a flash-based filesystems for FreeBSD, and being able to co-opt the cross-compiler chain from linux where clang does not yet support cross compilation (e.g. mips) has brought FreeBSD to a point where (finally) the issues around embedded finally are illuminated.

tl;dr:  This has been anticipated for a long time.

Jim

(Other BSDs?  I know not of any other BSDs.  There can be only one.)