Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:15:05 +0200, Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> It's nice to know that someone has 11.2 working on armv5. Could you let  
> me know how you built it?


I cross-compiled on amd64.
cd /usr/src (containing the 11.2 sources of course)
export TARGET_ARCH=arm
export KERNCONF=SHEEVAPLUG
export DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk (here the usb stick is mounted)
make buildworld
make buildkernel
cp /usr/obj/arm.arm/usr/src/sys/SHEEVAPLUG/kernel.bin $DESTDIR/boot/msdos/
make installworld
make distribution


 From the top of my head, so I might have missed something.


>
> I installed portsnap under 11.0 but was unable to build anything - will  
> try again with 11.2 to see if I can iron out the problems I've >had as I  
> now know someone has it working.

"Unable to build" is not very specific. It helps if you copy paste the  
actual error message.

Ronald.


>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:34 AM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws>  
> wrote:
>> Dear Balanga,
>>
>> I run 11.2 on my Sheevaplug (armv5 also).
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD sheeva2.klop.ws 11.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 #4  
>> r339336M: Sat Oct 13 23:31:51 CEST 2018      
>> >>builder at rpi3:/data/src/obj-11.2/arm.arm/data/src/11.2/sys/SHEEVAPLUG   
>> arm
>>
>> It has a ports checkout using portsnap. And that works pretty well.
>> Just do:
>> portsnap auto
>> cd /usr/ports/shells/bash (or whatever port you wish to install)
>> make install
>> make clean
>>
>> I think that is the most simple approach for you to go forward.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ronald.
>>
>> PS: Sorry for top-posting, my current mail client does not help in this  
>> very well.
>>   
>> Van: Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com>
>> Datum: dinsdag, 23 april 2019 20:08
>> Aan: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
>> CC: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org>
>> Onderwerp: Re: Marvell Kirkwood - anyone?
>>> 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
>>>>
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