Re: building armv6 bootable media

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:06:29 UTC
Hmmm, if this is -current, then armv6 has started to be unwound...

thermite.sh was in the releng repo... I can't find it now... and kyle on
irc said my memory might be faulty and thermite was just a wrapper around
release.

Warner

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> wrote:

> Warner Losh:
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> wrote:
> > > after running 'make -C release NO_ROOT=yes release' for arm.armv6 i
> have
> > > the following files:
> [...]
> > > none of these appear to be bootable media
>
> > IIRC, arm stuff was built by thermite and not the release script.
>
> thanks, i guess that explains why i don't get a bootable media.
>
> i'm trying to boot an armv6 GENERIC kernel under qemu to test my PR:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1124
>
> could you recommend the best way to do this?  duckduckgoing "freebsd
> thermite" doesn't return any results that look relevant.
>