On 2013/05/16, at 2:02, Tim Kientzle <kient...@freebsd.org> wrote: > I don't object, but I'm not sure why we need this. > > I'd rather see a comment in the BEAGLEBONE > config indicating that it can be used with > beaglebone-black.dts. > > Generally, I want us to move away from compiled-in > DTBs. The BEAGLEBONE config works just fine on either > one and it's what I plan to continue using going forward. > > Part of the boot loader's job is to load the correct DTB. > The images built by Crochet today already do this > and produce images that boot on either old or new > BeagleBone using the BEAGLEBONE config. > > U-Boot already has logic to detect the board, > load the correct DTB, and the same BEAGLEBONE > kernel then runs just fine. Here are the U-Boot > patches if you'd like to do this as well: > > > https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/tree/master/board/BeagleBone/files > > (There's also a copy of the compiled U-Boot and > associated files at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/beaglebone-and-black-bootfiles.tgz > > Moving forward, I'd like to see us generally consolidate ARM > kernel configurations. I have some (still very experimental) > ideas for combining the RPi and BeagleBone kernels > into a single kernel, but with my limited time, that will > be a fairly long-term project. If anyone's at BSDCan > who would like to talk about it…. I'll be at the > "Beyond BuildWorld" session on Thursday…. ;-) > > Yes, this is certainly useful for people net booting > the BeagleBone Black for developing kernel drivers, > but I'm not sure why we would bother having it > checked-in.
I understand your point, but what about drivers that only apply to the BeagleBone Black, such as a driver for HDMI? Wouldn't that require a separate kernel config file or are we expecting to use only kernel modules? Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
