FreeBSD-Wandboard r266864

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…

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…

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’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…

The default FreeBSD kernel for Raspberry Pi can be found here in the FreeBSD source browser.  It’s everything you need to boot FreeBSD on a Pi, and includes GPIO support.  However, the Pi is a nice small computer, so it’s likely that you’ll want it to include options such as Wifi, and pf.  In my…

I got interested in building my own wireless point after seeing some of the wireless firmware issues like this.  Besides, I’ve always been interested in embedded devices and FreeBSD. So, the first step was a device.  I chose to use a Wandboard.  I’m a committer to Crochet-FreeBSD, so I built out the device support for…