Heads-up regarding arm/armv6 snapshot builds

[Glen Barber]

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:55:24PM -0700, Thomas Skibo wrote:
> 
> > On May 9, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > An important note for people using the Zedboard:
> > A port of u-boot for this board does not currently exist in the Ports
> > Collection, and as a result, support for building the ZEDBOARD image has
> > been dropped.  If someone is already working on a port of this u-boot,
> > please let me know.  Otherwise, I will work on the port as soon as
> > possible.
> 
> Hi, Glen.
> 
> I have been supporting Zedboard in crochet.  Crochet builds u-boot
> for the Zedboard by lightly patching u-boot source from Xilinx
> (https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx).  I have one more patch to
> send Tim so that crochet always builds u-boot from release v2014.4
> because the latest release (v2015.1) broke some things which will
> require other tweaks to crochet.
> 

This should be ported to the ports tree, after which it will be easy to
add Zedboard support back.  (See the existing sysutils/u-boot-* ports
for examples.)

> But, I wonder if there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD on the
> Zedboard to warrant you going to the trouble to build snap-shots.
> 

Although I do not have one of these boards, I would still like to
provide snapshot and release builds for it.  There is very little
resource overhead to do so.

Glen

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