Towards an ARM system-building script

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:54:59AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:18 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>>>> Great that you're moving this forwards!  I wonder how we can get this into
>>>> the main tree so that it gets the appropriate help and testing.  Any ideas
>>>> on where you'd want to put this Tim?
>>> 
>>> Once it can handle a couple of boards and I'm convinced
>>> it's actually legible and useful to someone other than me,
>>> then it could go beside nanobsd.  Someday, someday, I'd
>>> like to see this used to build "official FreeBSD releases"
>>> for some of these boards, but we've all got a bit of work
>>> ahead of us before we're ready for that.
>> 
>> Yea.  I'd normally lobby for hacks to NanoBSD to make this happen, but I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the bandwidth to still be the nanobsd maintainer.
>> 
>>> Needs a better name than beaglebsd, though; it aspires
>>> to so much more.  ;-)
>> 
>> armv6bsd isn't catchy either. BaSeDarm isn't much better :)
> 
> As an interested bystander looking for an opportunity to get
> involved, I'm curious: why the emphasis on "armv6" that I've
> seen, regarding these boards that all use processors that are
> ARMv7 architecture devices?  Sure, armv6 is very similar, but
> armv7 is what ARM calls them.

armv6 means all armv6 or armv7 processors.

Warner