Re: Pinebook Pull for Advice

[Jun Ebihara <jun%soum.co.jp@localhost>]

From: Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Pinebook Pull for Advice
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:00:39 -0400

> I am up and running on NetBSD 8.99.43 on my new Pinebook 1080P thanks to the most excellent work by Jared (me genuflects). I have a few questions, perhaps someone could steer me in the right direction.
> I pulled down pkgsrc and tried to build a few packages. I also pointed to (http://www.invisible.ca/arm/packages/arm64/current/) and used both pkg_add and pkgin. Some packages installed and some did not. Some complained that certain library files were missing from /lib.
> Question 1:
> What architecture repo do I use to pull down the NetBSD sets (i.e. base.tgz, comp.tgz, et al)?

aarch64?

cf. update latest
1. ftp sets
http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/sets/
2. extract expect MD5 SHA512 etc.tgz
tar xzpf *.tgz -C / 
3. etcupdate -a -s /mnt/evbarm/binary/sets/etc.tgz 

> Question 2:
> I am trying to setup my big beefy workstation to do some cross compiling for the Pinebook; however, I am not sure what architecture to give as the platform parameter.

ftp http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src.tar.gz
tar xzf src.tar.gz
(cd src;cvs update -PAd)

MACHINE=evbarm
ARCH=aarch64
(cd src;./build.sh -m ${MACHINE} -a ${ARCH} -U tools)
(cd src;./build.sh -m ${MACHINE} -a ${ARCH} -U build)
(cd src;./build.sh -m ${MACHINE} -a ${ARCH} -U release)

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Jun Ebihara