Building an image for Raspberry Pi

[George Mitchell]

On 04/02/14 20:57, Shawn Webb wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> So I'm trying to build an image for the rPi, and I came across Crochet
> from the Raspberry Pi wiki page on FreeBSD's wiki. I'm basing my build
> off of a fresh HEAD.
>
> I'm not entirely sure if I should be contacting the Crochet developers
> about this, or if the freebsd-arm list would be better. Either way,
> please forgive me if this isn't the most effective place.
>
> It seems that when Crochet tries to build U-Boot from source, U-Boot
> requires the application armv6-freebsd-gcc. I can't find such an
> application in the ports tree (grep -rn arv6-freebsd-gcc /usr/ports).

What I found on my most recent clean build (on a FreeBSD 10-STABLE
system) was that I had to set HOSTCC to cc in the environment in
order to build U-Boot.  I don't even really understand why it worked,
but it did.                                                -- George

>
> It seems people have successfully built FreeBSD for ARM. However, the
> instructions I'm seeing from a little bit of googling have turned up
> pretty outdated posts.
>
> You can probably tell I'm a newb at ARM on FreeBSD. What ought I do
> next?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shawn
>