Re: building armv6 bootable media
Mark Millard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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On Apr 22, 2024, at 15:10, Mike Karels <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Apr 2024, at 16:06, Warner Losh wrote: > >> Hmmm, if this is -current, then armv6 has started to be unwound... >> >> thermite.sh was in the releng repo... I can't find it now... and kyle on >> irc said my memory might be faulty and thermite was just a wrapper around >> release. >> >> Warner > > I don't think you want thermite.sh; it is used to build all of the > architectures in parallel for snapshots and releases. But -current > doesn't have a conf file for armv6. Older releases (including 13.3) > or stable/13 have a config file for RPI-B that probably could serve > as a template. So far as I know, the FreeBSD kernel was only designed to handle the RPI-B for armv6. That in turn involves the RPI-B's firmware and U-Boot being involved before FreeBSD, not just FreeBSD. The RPI-B firmware might make live changes to the .dtb file contents that it loads. The RPI-B firmware is not arm code but some Broadcom code, as I understand. (Until more recent times, arm cores in RPi*'s were slave processors to the Broadcom video core hardware.) The more I think about this path, the more it looks unlikely to be readily used. > Mike > >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Warner Losh: >>>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> after running 'make -C release NO_ROOT=yes release' for arm.armv6 i >>> have >>>>> the following files: >>> [...] >>>>> none of these appear to be bootable media >>> >>>> IIRC, arm stuff was built by thermite and not the release script. >>> >>> thanks, i guess that explains why i don't get a bootable media. >>> >>> i'm trying to boot an armv6 GENERIC kernel under qemu to test my PR: >>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1124 >>> >>> could you recommend the best way to do this? duckduckgoing "freebsd >>> thermite" doesn't return any results that look relevant. >>> > === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com