Re: NetBSD 6.0 and earmv7hf

["Kulesa, Craig A - (ckulesa)" <ckulesa%email.arizona.edu@localhost>]

Harold Gutch wrote:
> Does "build.sh -m evbarm -a arm" (or perhaps "-m evbarm-el") perhaps
> do the job?

I think the main problem in this thread is discussing earmv7hf in the context of NetBSD 6.

NetBSD 6's arm releases are all OABI.  That is, only MACHINE_ARCH's of 'arm' and 'armeb' are supported in release builds of NetBSD 6.x.  That's why there are no package binary releases for anything but plain "arm" for NetBSD 6.

EABI support (earmv4, earmv6hf, earmv7hf, etc) started in earnest with the NetBSD 7.0 release.

The question to confirm is: "what is the ABI on the late-generation Time Capsules"?

If it's still OABI, the NetBSD 6 pkgsrc packages would normally run on it (unless Apple built it as hard-float).  If it's EABI (because Apple backported EABI to NetBSD 6, or built from a 6.99.x snapshot using the EABI), then we may be looking at a hybrid that doesn't represent *anything* NetBSD has supported in a release. 

-Craig