FreeBSD-10.1 Soekris r276913

Some time ago I was part of the effort to add Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD.   I wrote a blog posting about it here.   An explanation of how Crochet-FreeBSD boots the Wandboard is below: The Wandboard uses U-Boot as its initial boot-loader.  A number of patches to the U-Boot source are required, and you…

The FDT file for Raspberry Pi, declares UART.  I’ve had quite a bit of trouble understanding how declaring a uart in the FDT results in /dev/tty0 and /dev/cuau0 appearing in /dev/ Here are the relevant lines from the FDT: uart0: uart0 { compatible = “broadcom,bcm2835-uart”, “broadcom,bcm2708-uart”, “arm,pl011”, “arm,primecell”; reg = <0x201000 0x1000>; interrupts = <65>;…

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…

My preferred server OS is FreeBSD. Each time I install it, I have to go through numerous steps to secure it. So, to avoid that effort, and to make sure I get it right each time, I’ve created an Ansible playbook to automate the entire process. You can learn about it here. Some of the…

Image is here.    Boot log is here.

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…