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FreeBSD Wandboard, new build with multicore
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:…
FreeBSD 9.2p1 image for Soekris
Image is here. Boot log is here.
Securing FreeBSD with Ansible
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…
Building FreeBSD-9.2 for Soekris using Crochet-BSD
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….
Spelunking Apple DOS 3.3 DSK files
If you happen to have had an Apple][, you might be interested in retrieving your data from old DOS 3.3 floppies. Or maybe you’re just interested in retrocomputing and downloaded some floppies at Apple2Online. In my case, I had an ulterior motive. I’ve been learning about FreeBSD device drivers and was wondering how difficult it…
The skeleton of a FreeBSD driver
It’s been a goal of mine for a while to understand how FreeBSD device drivers work. So, firstly I wrote a simple module; it’s here. The next step is to write the skeleton of a device driver. That is, a device driver that does nothing. The resulting source code is here. The Makefile is very…