Re: 32-bit executables on aarch64?

Glen Barber <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Apr 2021 15:17:55 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 08:48:50PM -0300, Mitchell Horne wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:45 PM Robert Clausecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > The intent is to test and develop software that only runs on
> > armv7 (specifically, Mecrisp Stellaris, a Forth system written
> > in ARM assembly).  This is best done natively.
> >
> > It's actually kinda annoying that no binary release tarballs
> > are provided for armv7, so setting up the jail involves an
> > annoying make world step.  For amd64 jails, I can just unpack
> > the binary tarballs and fix the configuration and I'm good to go.
> >
> 
> This issue about lack of distribution sets for armv7 has come up a
> couple of times. It wouldn't take much to start producing them
> officially, so I plan to submit a patch for this once re@ is done with
> the 13.0 release.
> 

The problem is (was?) the armv6/armv7 bits used a specific KERNCONF for
each SoC, which made it somewhat impossible to guarantee that
distribution sets would "just work".  As I understand it now, this is no
longer an issue.

However, the release/Makefile has no real knowledge of how to build
a release for armv7; the build is done using release.sh and a specific
configuration file for each board.

If the previous comment regarding KERNCONF is indeed no longer an issue,
I will be happy to work with you on creating these distribution sets.

Glen

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