Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone...

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Oct 13 01:27:21 UTC 2012


On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:11 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:

> 
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 21:04 , Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
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>>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports too…
>>> 
>>> I heard some rumblings from the ports team about
>>> setting QEmu arm VMs to do the builds.  I'm
>>> sure they could use the help.
>>> 
>>>> It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel that boots on at least all the armv6 processors...
>>> 
>>> If someone -- hint, hint -- created GENERIC in arm/config we
>>> could try that.  ;-)
>> 
>> I've just gotten as far as creating a ATMEL config...
>> 
>> The armv6 stuff is closer, but still suffers from having non-generic interrupt handlers, shutdown code, etc.  It isn't especially HARD work, but there's a lot of icky details to plow through to get to a unified kernel.
>> 
> 
> What's the rough outline of what's necessary to do that?  I can work on it.

(1) Finish unifying the initarm()
(2) Unify the interrupt code
(3) unify the shutdown/startup code
(4) polish off any of the dangling loose ends that compiling all the armv6 together.
(0) write a GENERICV6 config file

Warner


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