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FreeBSD-Wandboard r266864
This build fixes the recent console speed bug, and include super-pages, a new feature recently added to the ARM kernel. The image file is here, and the boot log is here.
FreeBSD-11 on Wandboard
Adding Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD has been a project of mine for a while. After this fascinating kernel fix, I can now build a working image and boot FreeBSD-Current. Here is an example boot log, and here’s an image file. The output of dmesg, with a USB wireless adapter in the board, is: KDB:…
Understanding the Raspberry Pi – FreeBSD gpio device
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…
Configuring the FreeBSD automounter
I have a number of disks in my FreeBSD box which exist only as backups of data. I prefer that they not be mounted all the time, but instead mounted on use. They are 2x internal SATA disks and an external USB3 disk. This blog post explains how they are set up to auto-mount….
Updated FreeBSD Wandboard Build
This build is for FreeBSD-11, Alpha 2. Binary image, and bootlog.
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….