RPI3 Hackathon at BSDCan/Dev SUmmit

[Shawn Webb]

The hackathon has started!

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:57:11PM -0400, Shawn Webb 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
> > 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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