Re: Is there a port manual for port freebsd to arm/imx6 board?

In the past, you needed an IMX6 kernel. these days, all of that is in
GENERIC. The board
bring up often times is making sure that you have a good u-boot and the FDT
that it provides
matches what FreeBSD expects.

Warner

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 8:12 AM Scott Zhang <macromarship@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll check it out.
>
> Sorry I am still a stranger for freebsd build system.
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:17 PM Valery Seys <valery@vslash.com> wrote:
> >
> > the wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm tells us:
> >
> > - Supported SBC: NXP i.MX6
> >
> > and provides a link to the "Embedded Handbook":
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/EmbeddedHandbook
> >
> > where you will find out how to compile the base system.
> >
> > UBoot port has some slave ports, like the one to boot on imx6:
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/U-Boot-ports
> >
> > see sysutils/u-boot-master
> >
> > BR
> >
> > v/
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/09/2022 07:37, Scott Zhang wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 10:31 AM Scott Zhang <macromarship@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Dear Everyone:
> > >>      I am personally very familiar with linux since 2003. And in last
> 8
> > >> years I have good experience for porting linux to arm/imx23 arm/imx6
> > >> port for linux kernel 2.6,3.0,4.0,5.4, so familiar with nxp/freescale
> > >> imx series chips and linux kernel/driver tweak.
> > >>      I know freebsd history well but not very familiar with its use,
> > >> especially desktop, command looks same as linux so not big problem.
> > >>      I want to port freebsd to the arm-board we build on imx chips,to
> > >> try freebsd more. I thought the idea should be same as linux, make
> > >> cross-compiler then build kernel. But first thing I dont' see where to
> > >> configure the compiler. Comparing to the crowded stuff relating to
> > >> linux, the freebsd document is quite rare. The documents on website
> > >> are mostly entry level.
> > >>      So is there a port manual?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >
>
>