Porting applications to FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi

After installing and running FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi we can find that we have only base OS.
There are no user applications available in packages.

Here is instruction how to port applications to FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi.

Working with GPIO on Raspberry Pi with FreeBSD

Raspberry Pi is based on Broadcom BCM2835 chip.

We can find description of Broadcom BCM2835 Peripherals here.
There are 54 general-purpose I/O (GPIO) lines split into two banks.

Here is instruction how to work with GPIO on Raspberry Pi with FreeBSD.

Keeping actual time on Raspberry Pi with FreeBSD

The Raspberry Pi doesn’t have any ‘Real Time Clock’ (RTC) module.
To keep actual time on it we need to use NTP (network time protocol).

How to setup USB WiFi on Raspberry Pi with FreeBSD

Setting up USB WiFi under FreeBSD is not a very hard task.
We can use official handbook.
But in my opinion it’s too complex.
Here is a simple guide how to configure USB WiFi.
Our goal is to configure WiFi interface to connect and use available wireless network.

Connecting to Raspberry Pi with FreeBSD using a Console Cable

First time I connected HDMI display and keyboard to my Raspberry Pi.

HDMI display works as a console. You can see all diagnostic messages on it.
But it is hard to make good screenshots from it.
That’s why I decide to use serial connection to my Raspberry Pi.

Running FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi

In this and some next articles I will write how to install, setup and run FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi.