NetBSD has had support for cross compilation for some time now. This talk covers the features and changes in NetBSD enabling a new comer to set out from obtaining a copy of the NetBSD source code and pkgsrc to building an OS & Firmware for an ARM board from scratch on an operating system of their choice. This was leveraged as the basis for a series of workshops aimed at introducing the NetBSD operating systems to hardware ethusiasts.

The workshops covered: Introducing project rescources (source repo & documentation) Cross compilation with ease The Lua subsystem - a highlevel language interface to the system Working locally using simulation Rapid prototyping with rump Tamper resistence with veriexec