RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit

[Shawn Webb]

I've talked with Andrew Turner, who gave me a little bit of info to use
as a starting point. We need to get U-Boot EFI working on the RPI3
first. Luiz Otavio O Souza is the current U-Boot expert in FreeBSD, so
I'm CC'ing him here. He's here at the Dev Summit, so I'm hoping he might
have time to help out.

If I can't get the right knowledgeable people involved, I'm going to
cancel the hackathon. I simply lack the knowledge regarding ARM64 and
the RPI3 hardware to do anything myself over the course of the next four
days. The ARM64 reference documentation is several thousands of pages,
and I'm only a few hundred pages in. I'll continue on, but I still have
a ways to go. ;)

I'm really hoping to get some help from the FreeBSD community.

Thanks,

Shawn

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:34:50AM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm hoping we can convince Andrew Turner to help us out. He has
> existing code at https://github.com/zxombie/freebsd/tree/arm64-rpi3 but
> that hasn't been updated for a while now. FreeBSD HEAD has diverged
> enough to cause merge conflicts, some of which I think I might've fixed
> in my own code repo, but I don't know jack about that code so I probably
> made mistakes.
> 
> The RPI3 devices we're bringing all have SD cards in them along with
> serial cables that can also power the device. We're also bringing
> somewhere around 5-7 SD card readers. So we'll have plenty of devices to
> hack and test on.
> 
> I can help coordinate the work, but we really need help from those who
> understand arm64 and the chips in the RPI3.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shawn
> 
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:26:20AM -0400, Manas Bhatnagar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am interested, but I really do not know much about programming for
> > the FreeBSD kernel. Still, I'm happy to help in any way that I can :)
> > 
> > Manas
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> > > Hey All,
> > >
> > > HardenedBSD is bringing 10+ RPI3 devices to hack on during the Dev
> > > Summit and during BSDCan. I'm really hoping that we can get RPI3 support
> > > with latest HEAD by the end of BSDCan.
> > >
> > > I'm reading through the ARM64/AArch64 reference docs myself and have a
> > > long ways to go. I would still consider myself a complete newb in ARM64.
> > > So, in order to make my hope a reality, I'm going to need a bit of help.
> > >
> > > Who's interested in participating in the hackathon?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shawn Webb
> > > Cofounder and Security Engineer
> > > HardenedBSD
> > >
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> -- 
> Shawn Webb
> Cofounder and Security Engineer
> HardenedBSD
> 
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Shawn Webb
Cofounder and Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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