Warner's Random Hacking Blog

Way back in the days of yore, when Turbo C++ had just came out, I was using a DEC Rainbow 100B+. For those not old enough to recall, this w...

A few weeks ago, I wrote up how to make a bootable i386 image. People have been asking me to extend it for my ARM platform. Here are the in...

Wired has a great article about the high precision hobbyist timing community. These folks are less fanatical about timing than the professi...

Last week I started at Cisco. The entire week I tried to figure out how to drink from a fire hose without getting hurt. This week, I'l...

This is just a quick thumbnail about how to take a core file from a FreeBSD/arm box and debug it on a FreeBSD/i386 box you cross compiled th...

Today, while I was ordering a new keyboard for my laptop (a 1-year-old is very hard on them), I ordered a 4GB SDHC card. When it arrives, I...

From time to time I hear people complain at how hard it is to build an image from the FreeBSD sources. This week, I'll explain how I bu...

GDB Cross building on FreeBSD I recently had to build a gdb that worked on our development host, but understood arm binaries and core files....

Today I started work on porting FreeBSD/arm to a new SoC. I'm taking very detailed notes on this process, as well as attempting to lear...

Once upon a time, all the BSD's got their USB stack from NetBSD. With it came a usbdevs file. This file has grown and mutated on the d...

I've finished much of the work on improving the in-tree USB stack, apart from adding device IDs. This is just the initial round. Now t...

After the shared library version bump, the xorg 7.2 transition and the new gcc compiler in the base, I started to rebuild everything. After...

I did a quick pass through the tree tonight eliminating all the devinfo stuff. This code had been implemented in uhub a while ago, but the ...

I've started working on some minor improvements to CardBus and USB. I'd like to see each of them using filters. CardBus and PC Car...

At CompUSA today I found a cheap 802.11b SDIO card. This card is labeled as a Kodak Camera wireless card, but has a Marvell 8686 lurking un...

There's another SD/MMC stack for FreeBSD that's been posted. It was written by Akihiko GOTANDA-san using the SD simplified specific...

After my last entry, I noticed that Linux, OpenBSD and hps' new stack all have ZyDas drivers, at least for the ZD1211 and ZD1211B. hps...

I stopped by Office Depot today to buy a wireless usb card. I wound up getting the rather generic sounding Ativa Wireless G USB network car...

Looks like my run of luck with CardBus cards has reached an end. I came home with an eHome card, but it is a Marvel part for which little do...

I had an absolute blast at BSDcan 2007. There's more buzz this year about embedding FreeBSD than there has been in prior years. I belie...