FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image

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

I often have a need for a fresh FreeBSD install, to host a server, or perhaps just experiment with. My usual solution is FreeBSD jails. However, I’ve recently gotten interested in Ansible and AWS. There are quite a few advantages to installing infra with AWS, however the one I’m most interested in is automating the…

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….

I’ve been building FreeBSD-CURRENT images for my Pi, and I’ve noticed I have this: ugen0.5: <vendor 0x7392> at usbus0 So, it turns out I have one of these plugged in, and it seems likely that the unknown USB device is ugen0.5.  So firstly, there is the question of “ugen”.  You can read about it here….

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…