FreeBSD-wandboard build 269149

These are untested builds of FreeBSD-10, created with Crochet Raspberry-Pi BeagleBoard Soekris

I’ve been trying forever to get a mobile IPSec connection up between my OS X laptop and pfsense.   Finally, thanks to this outstanding blog post, it works.  I’m especially excited that it works with the default OS X and Android VPN clients. My pfsense config closely mirrors the one specified by Mike Murray pfsense…

In preparation for writing a device driver, I thought I would firstly write a module.  The resulting source code is here.   Firstly the Makefile: SRCS+=bus_if.h device_if.h examplemodule.c KMOD=examplemodule .include <bsd.kmod.mk> The first line defines the sources.   examplemodule.c is my module source.  I needed to include bus_if.h and device_if.h since I’m writing my module…

I’m upgrading the U-boot version used for Wandboard by Crochet-BSD.    The first step is to upgrade the Device Tree Compiler (DTC); there are instructions here. Once you have the U-boot 2014 source, the build is trivial: gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd- wandboard_quad_config gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd-  

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

The FreeBSD ARM team have completed the work to support multicore on ARM.  You can read the announcement here.  I’ve made a new build of FreeBSD ARM for Wandboard, which you can download here. The dmesg output is here, and here is the sysctl showing four cores [Kroot@wandboard:~ # sysctl -a | grep hw.ncpu hw.ncpu:…