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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:41:42 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)
Message-ID:  <424BD3E6.2040002@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050331103614.GL33677@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <20050331014311.GA96606@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050331103614.GL33677@cicely12.cicely.de>

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Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
>>http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
> 
> 
> As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD.
> No MMU, very tight RAM and code space.
> Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is
> something different.
> RTEMS should be a good candidate - it is not Linux, but unfortunately
> has large portions under GPL too.
> But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris,
> which runs FreeBSD, only the size and supply power is an interesting
> point.
> 

An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very worthwhile, even if it
requires a radical divergence from the original codebase.  I was
hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD, but that doesn't
seem to be the case.

Scott



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