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I'd like to use the latest Ada support on FreeBSD. When I run pkg search gnat, the latest GNAT version provided by the ports system is gnat13. This is behind the latest available GCC version. I found that GNAT is part of the GCC compiler suite, and I successfully built it by specifying the Ada...

I'd like to mmap a raw /dev/ada drive or partition, but mmap returns "Invalid argument". Is it unsupported? int fd = open("/dev/ada0p2", O_RDONLY); if(fd < 0) err(EX_OSERR, "open"); void *p = mmap(0, 32*1024*1024, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if(p == MAP_FAILED) err(EX_OSERR...

Good presentation made by «Jean-Pierre Rosen», FOSDEM 2019.

Dæmon Desktop (The High-Integrity Desktop for Serious Workstations) This is a tentative to conceptualize a hypothetical ‘FreeBSD Workstation’, just in case of some entity eventually get interested on to design and implement it some day. The main inspiration for this brainstorm is the aiming to...