http://fubar.geek.nz/blog Me ranting about Stuff Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:42:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been punished rewarded for submitting patches to FreeBSD with a commit bit. I'll initially be working on improving support for the Samsung s3c24x0 ARM cpu's. I also have some network driver changes that will be useful for embedded boards. Thank you to Warner, who is my mentor, for offering ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2010/07/22/freebsd-commit-bit/ Work I have started my own FreeBSD and Linux consulting business. It focuses on custom FreeBSD and Linux development at any level of the stack, from Kernel device drivers to custom GUI apps. I'm also working on a product that will be useful for companies wanting to work with FreeBSD in ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2010/07/05/updates/ I've just released a patch to FreeBSD 8-CURRENT to get it booting to single user mode on the Neo1973 emulator. I've written up some notes on using it the OpenMoko wiki. It's best if you already know a bit about building FreeBSD as it can take some effort to build ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2008/06/30/freebsd-on-the-neo1973-update/ The following is my trip report for the recent BSDCan 2008 conference. Contacts I made I met Philip Paeps, Warner Losh, Rafal Jaworowski, Marcel Moolenaar, Joe Marcus Clarke, Andrew Thompson, Murray Stokely, Scott Ullrich from pfSence who I have had contact with previously. I also met with Adrian Clark at the airport the ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2008/06/08/bsdcan-2008-trip-report/ My work towards creating a front end for freebsd-update is progressing. I have it at the point where it is exchanging dummy information about the patches on a machine. I've added signal handlers to shut down the back end correctly. The network code is fixed when the back end attempts ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/07/22/freebsd-update-front-end-update/ Andrew Thompson informed the NZFUG list there is now a New Zealand FreeBSD wiki. It's for *BSD users in New Zealand. http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/06/14/nzfug-wiki/ I've managed to get my front and back ends talking to each other. The front-end is written in Python. It loads a Glade file and uses that to generate the window to display. To run it you need a copy of //depot/projects/soc2007/andrew-update/ from perforce. Run 'make' to build it. Next, from ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/06/10/freebsd-update-front-end-first-cut/ While reading Planet FreeBSD today Florent Thoumie pointed me to this post. The author is not happy they can't update a single package they installed with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE to the latest version. The problem is they assume the ports collection follows the FreeBSD base. The first point I noticed is ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/05/28/freebsd-ports-are-not-branched/ My proposal for the Google Summer of Code to create a frontend for freebsd-update was accepted by the FreeBSD project. My current design it to have a backend to control freebsd-update. This then talks to the frontend that lets the administrator update the machine and restart services as needed. I will ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/04/13/summer-of-code-07/ I managed to get my EFIKA to get to the point where it will complain there is no device to mount the root file system from. It is using a few dirty hacks and some code from NetBSD but these should be able to be removed when Peter Grehan has ... http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/2007/04/06/the-efika-is-kind-of-booting/