Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?

[Balanga Bar]

Actually I have managed to build FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE on ARM and it has not
exhibited any problems on my GoFlexHome apart from being unable install
pkgs. That is the current focus at the moment.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:57 PM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:19:15PM +0100, Balanga Bar wrote:
> > Is it possible to get a version of portsnap from that point?
>
> I don't know enough to answer that question.  I think it would be fair
> to assume "no".
>
> IIUC you seem to be looking for an _easy_ way to get Kirkwood back up
> and working.  I'm going to be honest and say there isn't one.
>
> Here are the approaches I think you can take:
>
>  - stay on 8.x; bring individual port updates to it from ports-head and
>    build your own ports.  Difficulty: hard.
>
>  - figure out what src changes after 8.x regressed Kirkwood; check
>    out src 12-STABLE, build your own src, and use FreeBSD.org packages.
>    Difficulty: expert.
>
>  - stay on 8.x; attempt to bring a modern ports tree to it and build
>    your own ports.  Difficulty: challenging.
>
> The difficulty level of the first approach depends on which ports you
> are going to try to use.  shells/bash?  Probably not too hard.  Anything
> GUI-related?  Very hard.
>
> None of these approaches are achievable within hours; they will take
> days, or, in the case of the third approach, weeks.
>
> fwiw, the second approach is the only one where your fixes could be
> merged back into FreeBSD.  If I were personally determined to run
> Kirkwoord, that's the approach I would take.  (I gave my GuruPlug
> away some time ago.)
>
> I'm sorry that I can't be more encouraging.
>
> mcl
>