Subject: Re: General Information on Porting
To: Charles L. Nelson <charles@embsyspro.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-arm
Date: 11/09/2006 22:52:59
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The first one's a bit outdated on the details, but it may help to get an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