I’m upgrading the U-boot version used for Wandboard by Crochet-BSD.    The first step is to upgrade the Device Tree Compiler (DTC); there are instructions here. Once you have the U-boot 2014 source, the build is trivial: gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd- wandboard_quad_config gmake SED=gsed HOSTCC=cc CROSS_COMPILE=armv6-freebsd-  

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…

Available here.    

I was curious to see how difficult it would be to compile NetBSD on FreeBSD 10.  Once you have the source, there is a build.sh script which is very helpful.  The build is as simple as: ./build.sh -m i386 tools ./build.sh -m i386 kernel=GENERIC release In my case I have both clang and gcc installed.  I…

FreeBSD-11 has support for i2c on Wandboard. The working boot image is here, and the boot log is here. In order to enable it, there were three steps Enable the kernel options Update the files.imx6 file Create the DTS mappings The kerne config for Wandboard-Quad is here, however, most of the kernel options for Wandboard…

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 a new FreeBSD-11 build for Wandboard here.  This is based on subversion revision 266651.