RFC: "Crochet" build tool

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Mar 27 00:20:27 UTC 2013


On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:

> 
> 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.

Actually, they aren't. I've built nano images for both arm and mips.... 

> 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.

Yes, but external cross compile patches have been available for a long time...

Warneer

> 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.)
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