FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image

I got interested in building Crochet images for Chromebook.  The first step, naturally is to build U-boot for Chromebook. In order to build U-boot, you’ll need to have already installed gmake gcc You can get these from the ports tree.  You’ll also need xdev, the FreeBSD cross-compiler toolkit. I started with the latest U-boot 2014…

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…

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Crochet-BSD is a github project which supports building FreeBSD disk images for various platforms such a RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard and others.  I had a Soekris 4501 laying around, so I decided to extend Crochet to build images for it. So, firstly, I needed a kernel.  Building the kernel config for Soekris is explained pretty well here….

There is no official pkgng repo for FreeBSD-arm, yet.  There is an unofficial one, here, however in order to use it, you have to have pkgng installed.  As far as I can tell, the only way to install pkgng on ARM is to builds and install from source. On the platform I’m using, Wandboard, the…

Building a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone is not terribly difficult.  Firstly, you need the FreeBSD-Current sources: svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head /src/FreeBSD/ Next, build the cross-development tools for FreeBSD: cd /src/FreeBSD/head make XDEV=arm XDEV_ARCH=armv6 xdev Then get Crochet-FreeBSD.  This is by far the easiest way to build a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone git clone git://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd.git Once you…