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There is a new build of FreeBSD 10.1 for Soekris here.   The source tree revision is r276913.  

One of the best things about the Pi is that it’s small, and portable.  It’s very tempting to use it on wireless networks, unattended.  Sadly, in the real world, any wireless network can be hacked, and any device on wireless should be considered vulnerable.  So, pf is an easy way to harden your Pi. The…

Introduction This is my 3rd blog posting on the topic of the Crochet-FreeBSD ARM boot process.  The other two are here and here.   At long last, I have the Crochet-FreeBSD build for Wandboard working properly, with U-boot and ubldr.  This article will serve, I hope, to document the entire process and give others a…

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…

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