NERDYCLAP : A Geeky Parlance

Hi all, This post mainly concern with building FreeBSD's SDIO driver for BeagleBone Black by cross compiling it on AMD platform. I had few unresolved issues with the master branch of current FreeBSD tree. So, for this i used another unofficial branch: https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/mmcam-new . It does have the required KERNCONF file with stable SDIO driver. A lot of steps below are similar to the one given on: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cross-compiling-beaglebone-on-amd64.64718/#post-384835   with slight but inevitable changes. Procedure:  Before proceeding you need to first install git. sudo pkg update -f sudo pkg install git  Setup project directory by mkdir /BBB  Clone the repository to /BBB/src by git clone -b mmcam-new https://github.com/kibab/freebsd.git /BBB/src Setup environment variables as setenv BASEDIR /BBB setenv MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX $BASEDIR/obj setenv TARGET arm setenv TARGET_ARCH armv6 Note that sometime it shows an error ...

Hi all, In this post we will review the procedure of setting up FreeBSD environment on virtualbox along with setting up Internet on the guest OS(this was pretty tricky!).BTW, my host OS is Ubuntu 14.04 So, i am assuming you have already installed virtualbox as per your host OS and has downloaded the FreeBSD amd64 iso image(If not you can do it from here and extract it appropriately to get a .iso file. Installing FreeBSD on virtualbox Installing FreeBSD on virtual box is pretty straight forward, just insert use the downloaded iso to boot up the VM with default hardware settings for 64 bit FreeBSD OS. Following will be the bootup window: Just press enter and follow default procedure. Don't attempt to configure network adapter at this stage ww'll do it later after complete installation. Note: Please don't forget to remove the installation disc from virtual machine settings after complete installation. Otherwise, every time during bootup it will recall the install procedure. S...