RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit

[Jim Thompson]

Luiz is cool, he knows a lot about ARM.

Luiz and Renato (also at BSDCan/FreeBSD Summit) are both pfSense developers.
They did nearly all the work to get uFW running FreeBSD and pfSense.

Jim

> On Jun 8, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>> HardenedBSD
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Shawn Webb
> Cofounder and Security Engineer
> HardenedBSD
> 
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