Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

From: Bernd Walter (ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:01:57 +0200
To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>

    On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:41:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
    > Bernd Walter wrote:
    > >On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
    > >
    > >>http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
    > >
    > >
    > >As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD.
    > >No MMU, very tight RAM and code space.
    > >Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is
    > >something different.
    > >RTEMS should be a good candidate - it is not Linux, but unfortunately
    > >has large portions under GPL too.
    > >But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris,
    > >which runs FreeBSD, only the size and supply power is an interesting
    > >point.
    > >
    >
    > An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very worthwhile, even if it
    > requires a radical divergence from the original codebase. I was
    > hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD, but that doesn't
    > seem to be the case.

    It's a matter on how far you want to go.
    There are many MMU and GPL less solutions available.
    The following can be considered as the other extrem end:
    uIP, lwIP, Nut/OS, ...
    Just having the essential to run network based services.
    There is very much room of what people might expect from systems
    with more features. 

    -- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de
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