FreeBSD Wandboard r270855

I’ve been using FreeBSD jails for a while, and was looking for a simple way to create jail filesystems.   After some reading, I came up with this simple script which creates full FreeBSD filesystems.   The filesystem can then be used via jail.conf. #!/bin/bash JAILNAME=$1 echo “kjail “$1 JAIL_HOME=/tank/kjail/ FTP=http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/ # # get packages # if…

Having built FreeBSD numerous times, I thought it would be interesting to know how to build NetBSD.  The instructions from the NetBSD documentation are here. Firstly get the sources.  An easy way is to simply FTP them.  I got the NetBSD 6.1.2  sources from here.  These files are all tarballs, so they’ll need to be…

Image file here.  

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 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…

The default FreeBSD kernel for Raspberry Pi can be found here in the FreeBSD source browser.  It’s everything you need to boot FreeBSD on a Pi, and includes GPIO support.  However, the Pi is a nice small computer, so it’s likely that you’ll want it to include options such as Wifi, and pf.  In my…