Re: nanobsd [was Re: Cross compiling user applications for armv7]
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:55:13 UTC
On September 20, 2025 5:30:24 AM GMT+03:00, Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote: >On 9/19/25 20:58, Mark Millard wrote: >> Not that I'm familiar with the details, but I'll note >> nanobsd as a possible source of some ideas for builds >> and installs for embedded applications, not necessarily >> tied to the specifics above: >> >> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?nanobsd >> >> Some quotes: >> >> "nanobsd.sh -- utility used to create a FreeBSD system image suitable for embedded applications" > >This is fantastically useful to know. Thank you, Mark! > >I have a number of Beaglebone Greens in the wild that use read-only root with /tmp and /var mounted as tmpfs. This is done auto-magically by standard FreeBSD when / is marked ro in /etc/fstab. > >Quite useful when something is powered from an unreliable/limited energy source, such as solar. > >--- Zach > > so what do you run on them now? how did you get 16-current up? some bits are removed now. and there are fdt issues supposedly. i have black here. it has my old install in it's emmc from 10 years ago. it doesn't do anything, except to sit around and flash led with perl. that's how i know if still fully functions. i lost system it connected to. i could put something new there and actually reuse it for good. it's sad that it has to go, eh, together with 32bit and armv7 i checked and rev c is still being sold... prices are like 65 eur i built a custom remote dual rootfs upgrader for it which i have developed further today and use on newer boards i bet those suckers don't easily die, being industrial soc after all why i got bbb at all was to improve fbsd support on it and that actually got better thanks to my hacks eh it does have bunch of hw on board, tho, cpu is weak now