FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image

A new FreeBSD Wandboard build is available here and the boot log is here. This build uses U-Boot 2014.07.

I’ve been building FreeBSD-CURRENT images for my Pi, and I’ve noticed I have this: ugen0.5: <vendor 0x7392> at usbus0 So, it turns out I have one of these plugged in, and it seems likely that the unknown USB device is ugen0.5.  So firstly, there is the question of “ugen”.  You can read about it here….

Available here.    

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 been learning about FreeBSD kernel development, and discovering that, not surprisingly, it’s very, very slow to compile on a Raspberry Pi.  So, I decided to figure out how to compile the Pi kernel on a nice fast AMD-64. Firstly, get the kernel sources to a subdirectory under a non-root user profile: mkdir fbsd cd…

How the FDT works In specific, I’m looking at this file bcm2835.dtsi which contains the hardware definitions for the BCM2835, the SOC which powers a Raspberry Pi. Primarily, i’m interested in how to read it.   To really make sense of this, you should have this pdf at hand; it’s the hardware manual for BCM2835.  If…