Thursday, May 16, 2013 9am-12noon

The growth in FreeBSD on non-x86 and non-desktop/server systems requires a rethinking of our build process. Several efforts of late have been put forward, including Brooks Davis' cross building changes, as well as the work done by Tim Kientzle and Aleksandr Rybalko and others to take our current build system and twist it to the purpose of building usable images for embedded systems. As this is one of the areas we expect to continue working in, it makes sense to unify our efforts and to provide the necessary tools to get FreeBSD onto any type of board that our code might run on.

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We broke down what we were working on by what we had and what we wanted. Here are the two lists.

• Build without root is now in HEAD and 9.0
• -DNO_ROOT is in HEAD and 9.0
• Crochet
  • Breaks down options based on board supported (BSP)
  • User requests can be
    • size
    • packages
• Cross Built Ports
  • QEMU patches are in place to work with this (will be upstreamed)
  • Deals with ports and packages
  • Image activator allows the use of native tools and will be going into HEAD
• SMake Wrapper MikeKarels]
  • $LOCAL_INT
• MK SimonGerraty]
  • Builds subsets

This section includes volunteers or contact points as links.

• uboot ports DianeBruce]
• compiler patches vs. gccc on Linux TimKientzle]
• ubloader not on ELF [Ian]
• uboot API GeorgeNevilleNeil]
• FDT for MIPS and ARM 4/5 RobertWatson]
• Unify Loaders RobertWatson]
• Parallel Build Enhanced SimonGerraty]
  • projects/bmake
  • switch date?
  • review WarnerLosh], BrooksDavis], GarretCooper]
• Cross Build BrooksDavis]
  • Depends on bmake
• toochains.mk SimonGerraty]
• LLVM binutils DavidChisnall]
• Kerberos build issue GlenBarber]
• Crochet with VM images TimKientzle], GlenBarber], ColinPercival]
• Integrate make.conf into source tree SimonGerraty]
• Dump src.conf and make.conf during buildworld GeorgeNevilleNeil]
• Build config files not in the tree GeorgeNevilleNeil]
• Kernel build issues GarretCooper]
  • modules
  • options
• Packages built from the source tree BaptisteDaroussin]
• clang/LLVM test suite DavidChisnall]
• Tinderbox Test Cluster GeorgeNevilleNeil]
• Source Tinderbox Redport GlenBarber], BernhardFroehlich], GarretCooper]
• Anyone can revert any change to deal with build breakage, and this needs to be better socialized by core@
• Build Bot MarcelMoolenaar]
• Cross build subset of user land AdrianChadd]
• Build from hosts that are not FreeBSD, aka MacOS etc. MarcelMoolenaar]

(Add a list or attach slides detailing the achieved results here.)

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