Re: FreeBSD on embedded systems

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 11/14/05

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    Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:17:57 -0700
To: Bob Pickles <BPickles@sbs.com>

    Bob Pickles wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > For you interest, I have implemented a PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card)
    > driver for one of our products for a French company over 1 year
    > ago. FreeBSD is a nice stable platform, to develop with.
    >
    > There are many Intel based VME and cPCI system Single Board Computers
    > in the market place. It would be nice if FreeBSD were also compatible
    > with Power PC, then more military suppliers might look at this as an
    > option.
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Bob Pickles
    >

    FreeBSD runs multiuser on the Mac G3 and G4 platforms right now.
    Translating that into running on a PPC 405G or 440G or similar SOC
    system would probably take a couple of months of writing the appropriate
    glue code and bootstrap and porting some drivers. I'd very much like to
    see this be done, but it's not something that I have the cycles to in my
    free time.

    Scott
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