From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 25 23: 5:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687911531B for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:05:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA33565; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:05:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA50204; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:06:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910260606.AAA50204@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Nowlin Subject: Re: Can someone recommend small hardware?? Cc: Peter Gutmann , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:59:10 EDT." References: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:06:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Mike Nowlin writes: : Dunno if this has been recently brought up, but I just picked up a copy of : Circuit Cellar magazine (my subscription expired years ago.) I was : moderately surprised to see the number of "little tiny boards" advertised : in it that "Run Linux", which means they should be able to run FreeBSD as : well... This mag may be helpful to people who are starting to play with : Pico (like me) -- it does seem to be gearing towards embedded '386 uses, : plus the usual 8051, etc. designs. I've been working with 8051s for : several years, but they do have their limitations.... :) We've had no problems running on SBC that we've evaluated, if the chips are supported by FreeBSD. We've had good luck so far in that we've been able to find drivers for the chips we've run into, but twice we've had to go to the PAO well when the standard distribution didn't help. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message