Status of ARM build

[mi...@encambio.com]

Hello list,

According to my memory, the 3.3.0 image [1][2] file (listed official
prebuilt release) fails to boot on a Beaglebone Black. Can somebody
verify that, or has it been recompiled with LLVM and is now working?

[1] http://www.minix3.org/download/
[2] http://www.minix3.org/download/minix_arm_sd_beaglebones-3.3.0.img.bz2

Cheers,
Michael

[David van Moolenbroek]

Hello,

On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 5:08:04 PM UTC+1, minix@... wrote:

According to my memory, the 3.3.0 image [1][2] file (listed official
prebuilt release) fails to boot on a Beaglebone Black. Can somebody
verify that, or has it been recompiled with LLVM and is now working?

 
The official 3.3.0 image should work just fine. We would not upload a non-working image as an official download! You are right in that MINIX3 has been broken on the BBB more recently, starting from the post-3.3.0 resynchronization with NetBSD code, and that is still the main problem that keeps us from releasing 3.4.0. See [1] for more details. It is being worked on, but in a nutshell, the problem is with gcc and the solution is indeed to switch to llvm for the ARM port, and that switch is far from trivial.

Regards,
David

[1] https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix/issues/104

[Chris Card]

half of things works on v 3.4, could someone make a new iso, honestly, it's boring to waste time with bugs for rebuilding system