20160919

Cool new FreeBSD 11/12 kernel developer trick

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One of the cool new features in FreeBSD 11 is that we can use the system compiler as a cross compiler, eliminating the need to rebuild clang...
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20160918

Quick hack: creating a pcDuino3 bootable image from FreeBSD 11.0's BANANA PI image.

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Here's a tip about FreeBSD pre-configured armv6 images. For a given SoC, they are all (almost) the same. There's two difference for ...
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Chain booting u-boot with u-boot

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Recently, I needed to test u-boot before I flashed a new u-boot image into NAND. In the past, when I've googled it, I find a lot of scre...
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20160818

Creating a quick DNS server with a Rapsberry Pi2 and FreeBSD 11.0-RC1

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Raspberry Pi 2 and FreeBSD 11 and bind 9.9 for a name server Just thought I'd outline the steps to bring a Raspberry Pi 2 up with Fre...
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20160815

Creating Logos for u-boot images

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The Default Logo: Tux By default, Das U-boot uses a penguin logo when it first starts up. This default looks something like  this Whi...
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20160217

FreeBSD exposure on recent glibc DNS overflow

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Recently, there's been much talk in the news about CVE-2015-7547 affecting almost all Linux-based routers and many distributions. A qu...
20160109

Details on coming automatic module loading in FreeBSD

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Automatic Module Loading For a long time, I've wanted to add better, automatic module loading to FreeBSD. This past year, I started i...
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Good, cheap scope.

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I recently found a good scope for my hacking needs on Banggood. Thought you might be interested in it. You can find it  here . It's the ...
20151226

Hard Float API coming soon by default to armv6

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All the CPUs that FreeBSD supports have hard floating point in them. We've supported hard float for quite some time in the FreeBSD kerne...
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20151223

NanoBSD reved up for embedded

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NanoBSD Enhancements I've been experimenting with NanoBSD enhancements for embedded. Eventually, they will be in the mainline of Nano...
20151104

For Great Justice

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I/O was beginning Kernel: What Happen? Driver: Someone set us up the DMA. IO APIC: We Got Signal Kernel: What? Driver: IO MMU Turn ON ...
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20141110

Simple DirecTV Hack to get Netflix without another ethernet drop

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DirecTV has been using MoCA for some time to implement their whole home DVR. I've been a DirecTV subscriber for years. In my previous ho...
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20131207

Fixing FreeBSD/arm in stable/9...

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Just a quick note. I recently tried to create a FreeBSD-stable 9 image for an Atmel AT91SAM9G20 board I have. It didn't work. So, I trac...
20131124

Tracking down the problem...

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OK. After fighting several gdb build issues, I gave up on earlier versions. I thought I'd go old school to try to find the problem. Fir...