RPi VideoCore Port?

[Tim Kientzle]

On Apr 20, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> On Apr 20, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone tried wrapping up the RPi VideoCore kernel
>> module and user libraries as ports?
>> 
>> I've been playing with cross-building them and just
>> realized that it would be easier to have them as ports;
>> that would be easier to build/install natively and open
>> the way for a pre-built package in the future.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Are these ports of the Linux packages? I'm looking to package the Mali GPU code from linux and would be happier if I don't have to blaze the whole trail..

Oleksandr's already done the hard part of porting them to FreeBSD:

http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=185

https://github.com/gonzoua/vchiq-freebsd

https://github.com/gonzoua/userland


I've been building them as part of the Crochet image for
RaspberryPi but I suspect it would make more sense to
have them as straight FreeBSD ports so they can be
built and distributed as packages.

Tim