ubldr vs ubldr.bin?
Tim Kientzle
tim at kientzle.com
Sun Jul 19 19:01:17 UTC 2015
> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 20:15 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ubldr.bin is a raw executable image
>>> (no elf headers) which is self-relocating and can be loaded at any
>>> address. … a common armv6[hf] userland that runs
>>> on any board. Previously the single userland difference between various
>>> arm boards is that UBLDR_LOADADDR was different for each board.
>>
>> Wonderful! Nice work.
>>
>>
>>> … and ubldr is still
>>> being built only for compatibility with people that have older u-boot
>>> installed.
>>
>> Hmmm…. I wonder how Crochet should handle this. Plenty of folks use Crochet to build 10-STABLE and 10.1 images, so we have to be a little careful about jumping ahead with new features that are only available in 11-CURRENT.
>>
>> Any plans to MFC this?
>>
>> Tim
>
> It has all been MFC'd to 10-stable around the end of May and will be in
> 10.2. The only missing piece is changes to the u-boot ports. I got
> started on that, got like just wandboard done (but not comitted, I'm not
> actually a ports committer so I have to get someone's approval to
> commit), then this crazy-deadline project came up at work.
What changes are needed to the U-Boot ports?
Tim
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