Thursday, March 20, 2014

Adding chipset powersave support to FreeBSD's Atheros driver

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I've started adding some basic powersave support to the FreeBSD Atheros ath(4) driver. The NICs support putting parts of the device to s...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Porting over the AR8327 support

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It's been a while since I posted. I'll post about why that is at some point but for now I figure it's time I wrote up the latest...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Hacking on Mindwave for fun and .. fun

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Allison (and others, like a game developer named Lat) showed interest in these Neurosky Mindwave headsets. They're little wireless (blue...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Experimenting with zero-copy network IO in FreeBSD-HEAD

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Back when I started all of this networking hacking, the "big thing" was the overhead of doing poll() and select(). Various operati...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Doing arduino development on FreeBSD-HEAD

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I'm a sucker for punishment. Or, I noticed that FreeBSD's pkgng binary package repository ships with a port of the Arduino develop...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

So, FreeBSD on the AR9344? What happened?

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I committed a bunch of code a while ago to FreeBSD-HEAD to at least start booting on the AR934x SoCs. The AR934x SoC is a MIPS74k core - a d...
Monday, September 16, 2013

The gymnastics required to just do a "HALT" for MIPS..

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So, it turns out there's no nice, guaranteed way to implement a HALT style setup for MIPS in the idle thread in the kernel. I'll bra...