Building an image for Raspberry Pi

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:28:11AM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> On Apr 03, 2014 02:19 AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:14:43AM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > > On Apr 03, 2014 01:41 AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> > > > You need to build the XDEV stuff for the build environment.
> > > > 
> > > > Something like: make -C /usr/src XDEV=arm XDEV_ARCH=armv6
> > > > 
> > > > should do the trick.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I have the xdev stuff installed. It kinda seems like just using
> > > this xdev stuff isn't sufficient. It seems u-boot might require some
> > > gcc-centric items (though I'm unsure what they are).
> > > 
> > 
> > Can you send me a script(1)-ed build log?
> 
> I'd be happy to. Do you want the build log of the u-boot build through
> Crochet or of the xdev build? xdev builds fine, just not u-boot via
> Crochet.
> 

If XDEV build is fine, no need to send that.  Just the u-boot log then.

> > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 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 pretty outdated posts.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?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Are you aware that we have FreeBSD/arm images on FTP now?  Not that I am
> > > > trying to deter you from building your own images, but if you're just
> > > > looking for an image to install to get your RPI running FreeBSD, we have
> > > > you covered.  :-)
> > > 
> > > I've been toying with that pretty much all evening. It seems that fbsd
> > > has a really hard time booting on the rpi. I'm getting this error pretty
> > > much 90% of the time when I try to boot:
> > > 
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2014-January/007228.html
> > > 
> > > I'll play around with things a bit more. I have a semi-functional system
> > > now. I mainly want to be able to build my own images so I can publish
> > > nightly builds of my ASLR work now that Oliver and I just added support
> > > for [nearly all|all] architectures fbsd supports.
> > 
> > Do you have a slower SD card you can try?  I've seen that happen
> > sporadically with Class 10 SD cards, but have not yet seen it on lesser
> > speed SD cards.  (I still boot-test faster SD cards, but haven't hit
> > this issue in a while though.)
> 
> The one I'm currently using is a class 10 card, so maybe that's it. I've
> got a class 2 microsd card with an adapter that I'll try. I'll report
> back soon-ish with results.

Ok, thanks for experimenting.  I thought there was a fix committed for
this, but maybe I'm wrong.

Glen


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