Re: General Information on Porting

Hubert Feyrer <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:52:59 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.ports,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Charles L. Nelson wrote:
> I am very interested in modifying an existing ARM port to more fully support
> the Freescale i.MX31 (ARM1136JF-S) and doing a completely new port to
> another CPU architecture that is currently not supported. While the
> directory structure and build environment seems to be straight forward, I
> can't seem to locate any information that specifically details the directory
> structure and build environment.
>
> The only way to glean this information would seem to be reverse engineer
> build.sh. Does anyone have any insight into this?

http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/xdev.html
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/tour-de-source.html
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/part-compile.html

The first one's a bit outdated on the details, but it may help to get an 
overview...


  - Hubert