From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 15:51:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEAB37B400; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5E76C6A913; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:21:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:21:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kathy Quinlan , Robert Swindells , Devin Butterfield Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-small@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StrongARM support? (was also: Group for porting to other proccessor families) Message-ID: <20010108102134.E83353@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00c701c078c6$005804c0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <3A58E5D6.4A301727@wireless.net> <00c701c078c6$005804c0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <200101071635.QAA00761@fdy2.demon.co.uk> <00c701c078c6$005804c0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <92527.978877226@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <92527.978877226@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:20:26AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 0:22:01 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi all > > Is their a group of FreeBSD Enthusiasts that are working on porting > free to embedded controllers that are not x86 I am in the process of > developing a security / access / building management system, and am > looking at using free on all my outlying units. I am not interested > in using pc104 etc but using processors like the atmel thumb > processor, this is a risc based uC capable of handling 64Mb of flash > ram for program and working ram. why do I want an OS for an > industrial app, simple some units may be standalone and need > dialling into, building units will probably be TCP/IP. If I understand correctly, this is an ARM architecture. Almost the same time you wrote that, this message was sent to -hackers: On Sunday, 7 January 2001 at 6:20:26 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > [missing attribution to Michael C. Wu] >> I'm definitely interested in both StrongARM and PPC. (and so are very >> many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM, >> but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an >> official decision on the above by someone (hint hint -core :)) though. > > I don't think any "official decision" would say anything we in core > haven't already said individually and many times over the years. > Sure, FreeBSD wants ARM and PPC ports but currently lacks, at least to > our knowledge, the man-power to lead and support such a project. You > said it yourself. If some motivated individuals out there would > like to change that situation, you have our full support! Porting to ARM isn't going to be trivial, but the obvious first step is to get interested people together. Note that we've had a SPARC porting effort languishing out there for years now. If ARM is to do better, it will need significant support. Jordan's response above was made without his -core hat on. If people want a response from -core (which I suspect will probably be very similar), they should send mail to -core asking for it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message