announcing the availability of packages for the Arm architecture

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:

> On 11/05/12 07:33, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 4, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/30/12 07:18, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>>> All in all, I have the impression that not many people "use" freebsd on
>>>> arm at all.
>>> 
>>> Just getting to the point of "using" it is quite time intensive. I ran out of time trying to get my dreamplug to where I want it. These issues were in my way (this was some time ago, check the list for dates):
>>> 
>>> - install requires non-trivial patches and kernel config
>> 
>> There are a few people working on build systems to
>> simplify this.  My scripts work pretty much "out-of-the-box"
>> for RaspberryPi and BeagleBone now and should be easily
>> extensible to other platforms.
> 
> Where are these scripts? I'd like to try them.

github.com/kientzle/freebsd-beaglebone

> Part of my problem is that I routinely build customized versions of FreeBSD for specific applications, so I don't like just using a canned script...I like to understand the process. 

Sounds like you are someone I really want feedback from then.
I'm looking for ideas for how to make it easier to customize the
results from these scripts.  (They have a few hooks for different
kinds of customization but I need feedback to figure out if those
hooks are sufficient.)

The key piece right now is a concept of "board" that
encapsulates how to partition a disk image for a
particular system and what boot bits it requires.

Cheers,

Tim