EuroBSDCon 2025

I'd also like to offer a tutorial/workshop about hacking NetBSD (on NetBSD,
Linux, macOS as a host). This would basically demonstrate how to set up a
dev environment using my tools and using it to develop some example driver
and testing it on a Raspberry PI or Beaglebone. I'm also happy to answer
people's questions about specific problems they are having -- though it
would be good if they turned those in beforehand, so that I can prepare.

By way ol preparation you should:
- git clone NetBSD-current
- have a development toolchain installed
- have qemu installed

Please check back for updated instruction before the conference.

I'd like to give a talk about a standardized development environment for
hacking on netbsd on linux and macOS by crosscompiling.

• how the enviroment is set up
• what supporting software is used
• best pracices like logging build output etc.
• how to do netbsd development on it
• cross compiling on the host
• debugging in the vm
• testing in the vm

Background:

For my 2025 GSoC student I wanted us both to work in a standardized
development environment. So that I could more easily troubleshoot the
problems he would be having and to make it easier for him to do things the
right way. Afterall, he was in southern India and I'm in Europe and I don't
have remote access to his workstation.

Also he was running Ubuntu while my main laptop runs macOS. I do have a
machine running Debian that I can accesss over the network, however.

To that end I formalized the historically grown scripts I use for netbsd
development into something that could be shared with my student.

That worked out rather well.

This year I started to convert the instructions and documentation from last
year into documents that are to be published on the netbsd wiki.
I also updated and enhanced my tools for this year's student.

I do have a large collection of notes that I'd like to use as basis for the
talk.