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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:33:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Bob Pickles <BPickles@sbs.com>
Cc:        Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD on embedded systems
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0511140830080.15708-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <F890B0AE5F09C946992683ACA774893DB1E330@CORPMAIL.sbscorp.sbs.com>

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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, 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.

Yes, one thing we lack is a VME bus driver for the Tundra I/II
chipset.  VME is still popular in military and industrial
control applications.

-- 
DE




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