ubldr vs ubldr.bin?

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Thu Jul 16 03:15:43 UTC 2015


> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> ubldr.bin is a raw executable image
> (no elf headers) which is self-relocating and can be loaded at any
> address.  …  a common armv6[hf] userland that runs
> on any board.  Previously the single userland difference between various
> arm boards is that UBLDR_LOADADDR was different for each board.

Wonderful!  Nice work.


> … and ubldr is still
> being built only for compatibility with people that have older u-boot
> installed.

Hmmm….  I wonder how Crochet should handle this.  Plenty of folks use Crochet to build 10-STABLE and 10.1 images, so we have to be a little careful about jumping ahead with new features that are only available in 11-CURRENT.

Any plans to MFC this?

Tim



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