Warner's Random Hacking Blog

Plat'Home has generously shipped me an OpenMicroServer. Plat'Home has been doing Emebedded things for years in Japan. They used to...

This weekend, I've committed more mips support code. Everything except for the tool chain is now in the tree. The tool chain will be p...

I've started committing FreeBSD/mips to the tree. It includes support for the ADM5120 SoC, a generic MIPS 4Kc in a Malta board, the IDT...

Hello from Tokyo. Today we had a developer summit at AsiaBSDCon 2008. We talked about a number of items. We talked about the FreeBSD/mips:...

If you go buy a D-LINK DIR-615, make sure that it is hardware revision A1. Hardware revision B2 has less flash (only 4MB) and RAM (16MB) an...

The other day I saw that Target was selling the D-LINK DIR-615 draft N router for $50.00 each. Since it had been a while since I purchased ...

Thanks to some encouragement from Gavin Atkinson, I have been able to boot the AVILA kernel on my Linksys NSLU2 (slug). I have it running o...

Today I'm writing about the Buffalo LinkStation PC-L4PWAP. It was on clearance at Circuit City, so I thought I'd take a chance and ...

I was looking over some code for someone today. They were having problems with preemption in the write routine and couldn't understand ...

I went to my old house yesterday. Like many others, my old house hasn't sold in a while. There was a showing today, so I had to shovel...

Let's say you want to create a ram disk for a kernel, or a ufs image for an emulator. To make it interesting, the image needs to be in ...

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...