From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 21:17:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA26735 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA26723 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id WAA09553; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:16:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199707140416.WAA09553@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: going in rom To: spowage@vault.ilt.com (mark spowage) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:16:48 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199707121524.IAA20889@vault.ilt.com> from "mark spowage" at Jul 12, 97 08:24:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Spowage asked: > is there any way to build an embedded freebsd in rom..for barebones > functionality. You could certainly burn the text+data segments into ROM and copy the data segment into RAM on boot. There are probably other operating systems more suitable for embedded applications, however. See for instance the RTEMS home page at: http://lancelot.gcs.redstone.army.mil/rg4/rtems.html -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com