FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image

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

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…

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

Image is here.    Boot log is here.

Recently I found myself wanting to understand how I2C for FreeBSD ARM, on the Pi works.  The first step is to understand the GPIO implementation on Pi, since on a Pi, I2C is implemented on the GPIO. So, here’s the basic summary. Firstly, the FreeBSD source browser is here. In the directory /sys/ is the…

The FDT file for Raspberry Pi, declares UART.  I’ve had quite a bit of trouble understanding how declaring a uart in the FDT results in /dev/tty0 and /dev/cuau0 appearing in /dev/ Here are the relevant lines from the FDT: uart0: uart0 { compatible = “broadcom,bcm2835-uart”, “broadcom,bcm2708-uart”, “arm,pl011”, “arm,primecell”; reg = <0x201000 0x1000>; interrupts = <65>;…