FreeBSD EABI ARM & Network boot image howto?
John Nicholls
john at thinlinx.com
Mon Aug 16 20:43:03 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 22:04 +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:23:25 +1000
> John Nicholls <john at thinlinx.com> wrote:
> > Debian Linux have dropped support for the old ARM and moved to ARMEL,
> > I hope FreeBSD moves in this direction also...
> The idea is to allow the kernel to be compiled with gnueabi providing a
> compat layer for older binaries. There will still be support for them
> but as a module similar to how 32bit binaries are supported on various
> 64bit architectures.
Fantastic news to hear FreeBSD is moving in this direction, I think this
will definitely accelerate the adoption of FreeBSD in embedded devices
Thanks Andrew
> Andrew
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