New FreeBSD Wandboard Image

This build fixes the recent console speed bug, and include super-pages, a new feature recently added to the ARM kernel. The image file is here, and the boot log is here.

I’ve updated the u-boot bootloader for Crochet-FreeBSD Wandboard to 2014-10, from 2014-07.  The updated image is here, and the boot log is here.  

Recently I found myself wanting to understand how I2C for FreeBSD ARM, on the Pi works.  The first step is to understand the GPIO implementation on Pi, since on a Pi, I2C is implemented on the GPIO. So, here’s the basic summary. Firstly, the FreeBSD source browser is here. In the directory /sys/ is the…

I have a number of disks in my FreeBSD box which exist only as backups of data.  I prefer that they not be mounted all the time, but instead mounted on use.  They are 2x internal SATA disks and an external USB3 disk.   This blog post explains how they are set up to auto-mount….

I’ve had the opportunity to make some updates to the freebsd-arm-tools.   If you’re interested in trying FreeBSD-current on a Raspberry Pi, I’ve posted a build at http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-raspberry-pi/ which has full Wifi and pf support.  If you’re interested, the kernel configuration is here. Installing the FreeBSD on the Pi is simple.  Firstly, get an image, such…

I usually work on a Macbook, and I use keyless ssh with a cron job to do nightly backups.  It works very well.  However, I decided to try backups with Time Machine, using my FreeBSD-10 server as the host. The first step is to install netatalk3, and nss_mdns pkg install netatalk3 pkg install nss_mdns avahi…