Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:17:57 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Bob Pickles <BPickles@sbs.com> Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on embedded systems Message-ID: <43781E05.6050706@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <F890B0AE5F09C946992683ACA774893DB1E330@CORPMAIL.sbscorp.sbs.com> References: <F890B0AE5F09C946992683ACA774893DB1E330@CORPMAIL.sbscorp.sbs.com>
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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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