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Building FreeBSD for BeagleBone Black

What you’ll need: • BeagleBone Black. • 5v power supply or Mini-USB cable. • Micro-SDHC card 4GB or larger. • FTDI cable Steps: 1) Download current FreeBSD image for BBB to working directory wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20180215-r329338.img.xz 2) Uncompress the img.xz file and burn it to the sd card xzcat FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv7-BEAGLEBONE-20180215-r329338.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb Note that you might need admin rights for above command. Also, verify that your sd card is at /dev/sdb change it if it's other then sdb. In caes of unavailability of xzcat command, just install it by installing xz utils.

GSoC Project Introduction : Importing SDIO stack and Benchmarking

Hi all, This post is basically an introduction of my GSoC 2018 project under RTEMS . It marks the beginning of a series of blog posts that will be put on ( under the tag 'GSoC' ) for documenting my work throughout the time span. Before moving on, I would like to thank RTEMS project and Google for giving me this opportunity of working on a highly fruitful Open source project, whose proposal can be found here ,under the mentorship of Christian Mauderer and punit vara. It would be great working with you both :). Some important links: Wiki page: https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/2018/Porting_SDIO_and_Benchmarking Project Github Repo: https://github.com/madaari/GSoC-Porting-SDIO-driver-and-benchmarking Issues targeted : ticket#3429 , ticket#3430  , ticket#3428 Project proposal: Google doc GSoC acceptance letter(To whom it may concern): here Starting with the project description, so the project objective is divided into two sections: First part of this project is intended to add