Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?

[Balanga Bar]

It's nice to know that someone has 11.2 working on armv5. Could you let me
know how you built it?

I installed portsnap under 11.0 but was unable to build anything - will try
again with 11.2 to see if I can iron out the problems I've had as I now
know someone has it working.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:34 AM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> wrote:

> Dear Balanga,
>
> I run 11.2 on my Sheevaplug (armv5 also).
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD sheeva2.klop.ws 11.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 #4
> r339336M: Sat Oct 13 23:31:51 CEST 2018     builder at rpi3:/data/src/obj-11.2/arm.arm/data/src/11.2/sys/SHEEVAPLUG
> arm
>
> It has a ports checkout using portsnap. And that works pretty well.
> Just do:
> portsnap auto
> cd /usr/ports/shells/bash (or whatever port you wish to install)
> make install
> make clean
>
> I think that is the most simple approach for you to go forward.
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.
>
> PS: Sorry for top-posting, my current mail client does not help in this
> very well.
>
>
> *Van:* Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com>
> *Datum:* dinsdag, 23 april 2019 20:08
> *Aan:* Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
> *CC:* freebsd-arm at freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org>
> *Onderwerp:* Re: Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?
>
> Actually I have managed to build FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE on ARM and it has not
> exhibited any problems on my GoFlexHome apart from being unable install
> pkgs. That is the current focus at the moment.
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:57 PM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:19:15PM +0100, Balanga Bar wrote:
> > > Is it possible to get a version of portsnap from that point?
> >
> > I don't know enough to answer that question.  I think it would be fair
> > to assume "no".
> >
> > IIUC you seem to be looking for an _easy_ way to get Kirkwood back up
> > and working.  I'm going to be honest and say there isn't one.
> >
> > Here are the approaches I think you can take:
> >
> >  - stay on 8.x; bring individual port updates to it from ports-head and
> >    build your own ports.  Difficulty: hard.
> >
> >  - figure out what src changes after 8.x regressed Kirkwood; check
> >    out src 12-STABLE, build your own src, and use FreeBSD.org packages.
> >    Difficulty: expert.
> >
> >  - stay on 8.x; attempt to bring a modern ports tree to it and build
> >    your own ports.  Difficulty: challenging.
> >
> > The difficulty level of the first approach depends on which ports you
> > are going to try to use.  shells/bash?  Probably not too hard.  Anything
> > GUI-related?  Very hard.
> >
> > None of these approaches are achievable within hours; they will take
> > days, or, in the case of the third approach, weeks.
> >
> > fwiw, the second approach is the only one where your fixes could be
> > merged back into FreeBSD.  If I were personally determined to run
> > Kirkwoord, that's the approach I would take.  (I gave my GuruPlug
> > away some time ago.)
> >
> > I'm sorry that I can't be more encouraging.
> >
> > mcl
> >
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