New FreeBSD-10 pre-release builds

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…

I recently got interested in the technical details of how ARM OS’s work, so I decided to try my hand at writing a simple one.  This blog post is not about the OS itself, but about setting up the development environment. In my case, I’m developing in a terminal session, on FreeBSD 10 on an…

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…

FreeBSD-11 has support for i2c on Wandboard. The working boot image is here, and the boot log is here. In order to enable it, there were three steps Enable the kernel options Update the files.imx6 file Create the DTS mappings The kerne config for Wandboard-Quad is here, however, most of the kernel options for Wandboard…

I’ve been making FreeBSD-Current builds for my Raspberry Pi.  Naturally I wanted to try out the GPIO support to find out just how simple it is to use.   Here’s an example, and the full code is here. int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char *device = “/dev/gpioc0”; int gpiofd = open(device, O_RDWR); if…

I recently got a Beaglebone Black.   I was very excited; it’s similar to a Pi, but has 60 GPIO ports! Getting a serial console up on it was not quite a simple as I thought, since the BeagleBone uses FTDI.  Following the instructions here I installed the OS X serial driver for FTDI.   After plugging…