Can you believe it has been three years of BSDTalk?News: BSDCan is now accepting proposals for talks.Interview with Michael Lauth, CEO of iXsystems. We talk about his experiences with running a business using BSD.File Info: 17Min, 8MB.Ogg Link:https:…
For years I’ve been batching up my new CDs to rip all at the same time. Sometimes, this means doing a couple a month. Other times, like this year, it means catching up with 12 months of backlog. And while my ripping habits likely are uninteresting t…
Today I saw that Office Depot had a DIR-615 on sale for $40.00. It was a new hardware revision: C1. I took a chance that it was a new non-Ubimax based router. I’m glad I did, at least so far.The router is based around the Atheros AR9130 CPU. This i…
After I committed my previous set of CardBus fixes, reports came in about interrupt storms, first with 16-bit cards, and later with 32-bit cards. These have been corrected in my latest fixes. We always act the CSTS interrupt when we see it. In addit…
News:A bsdconferences channel has been created on YouTube.I speak with Jason Dixon about DCBSDCon, which will take place in February 2009. For more info see www.dcbsdcon.orgFile Info: 10Min, 5MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk167/bsdtalk…
I just checked into the tree some CardBus fixes. The biggest change was to the power-up sequence, as well as transitioning to using filters for the card change events. These two changes are somewhat intertwined, unfortunately, since the latter expose…
I’ve spent a little bit of time implementing the start of board files for the arm port. The initial push has been for the at91 subport only, and many improvements could be made to this. I’ve written up my initial thoughts on this on the FreeBSD wiki …
I was very fortunate enough to get a Casio Fiva MCP-205 given to me in 2000. I’ve used this laptop for years. I built Mozilla on it once, and melted the frame around the LCD! This resulted in a new warning in the Mozilla build instructions. Since C…
An interview with Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd, who also happens to be a user of BSD. We talk about Asterisk on BSD, and his choice of OpenBSD for his systems.File Info: 23Min, 11MBOgg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk166/…
An interview with Julian Elischer at MeetBSD in California. We talk about his early days with BSD and his work using BSD at various companies. He is currently with IronPort, which was bought by Cisco.File Info: 35Min, 16MB.Ogg link:https://archive.or…
A conversation with some of the FreeBSD Core Team at MeetBSD California 2008. I speak with Brooks Davis, Kris Kennaway, Robert Watson, Peter Wemm, and Philip Paeps about the recent core team election, FreeBSD 7.1 and 8, Developer Summits, and the move…
A brief description of my visit to iXsystems in California prior to MeetBSD 2008.File Info: 8Min, 4MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk163/bsdtalk163.ogg
I’m in California this weekend for MeetBSD, celebrating FreeBSD’s 15th birthday!Come on out and join the fun.
I look forward to attending MeetBSD this weekend.A brief description of my first attempts to get BSD on a eeePC 900A. I try OpenBSD 4.4, DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1, PC-BSD 7.0.1, and FreeBSD 7.File Info: 10Min, 5MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtal…
Rafal Jaworowski just committed support for a number of Marvell Processors. There are a number of commits going into the tree. He’s just completed the first of these:Introduce low-level support for new Marvell core CPUs: 88FR131, 88FR571.From an earlie…
A copy of Sunday’s live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008. I want to thank Mikel from Olivent.com for providing a backup streaming server in case my systems failed. I would not have dared to attempt live streaming without them.File info: 25Min, 12MB.Ogg Lin…
A copy of Saturday’s live stream from NYCBSDCon 2008. I wander around during lunch talking to random people. Voices include Jason Dixon, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Kris Moore, Matt Olander, George Neville-Neil, Phillip Koblence, and Jason Wright.File info:…
Oleksandr Tymoshenko posted a patch to gxemul that allows FreeBSD/mips to boot on it.I’ve committed it to the gxemul port. So now if you have gxemul 0.4.6.5_1 or later, you can run FreeBSD/mips, the MALTA kernel. I’ll post a howto and a pointer to a …
Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0.File Info: 12Min, 6MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk159/bsdtalk159.ogg
Recently, I’ve pushed many bug fixes from Alexander Motin to the SD/MMC stack. He’s submitted a driver for the SD Assocaition’s standard SD Host Controller, and fixed many of these minor issues as part of doing that. I’ve tested these improvements o…