Updated FreeBSD-Wandboard bootloader

One of the best things about the Pi is that it’s small, and portable.  It’s very tempting to use it on wireless networks, unattended.  Sadly, in the real world, any wireless network can be hacked, and any device on wireless should be considered vulnerable.  So, pf is an easy way to harden your Pi. The…

I got interested in building Crochet images for Chromebook.  The first step, naturally is to build U-boot for Chromebook. In order to build U-boot, you’ll need to have already installed gmake gcc You can get these from the ports tree.  You’ll also need xdev, the FreeBSD cross-compiler toolkit. I started with the latest U-boot 2014…

In preparation for writing a device driver, I thought I would firstly write a module.  The resulting source code is here.   Firstly the Makefile: SRCS+=bus_if.h device_if.h examplemodule.c KMOD=examplemodule .include <bsd.kmod.mk> The first line defines the sources.   examplemodule.c is my module source.  I needed to include bus_if.h and device_if.h since I’m writing my module…

Image file here, boot log here.  

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.

There is no official pkgng repo for FreeBSD-arm, yet.  There is an unofficial one, here, however in order to use it, you have to have pkgng installed.  As far as I can tell, the only way to install pkgng on ARM is to builds and install from source. On the platform I’m using, Wandboard, the…