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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:04:15 -0500
From:      Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        Bsderss <snort_sam@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Embedded FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a050819100478afb480@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050819143117.1602.qmail@web54407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 8/19/05, Bsderss <snort_sam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> --- Lowell Gilbert
> <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> > useful.  Have you looked at the FreeBSD
> > Documentation article on
> > "FreeBSD and Solid State Devices"?
> >
> Thank you very much for the comperhensive
> documentation.
> I want to create a embedded freebsd gateway in the
> M-System DiskOnChip. Do you know where can I purchase
> a board with flash-memory chip built-in? Apart from
> the flash-memory, is there any of these boards consist
> more than one ethernet built-in ports?

http://www.soekris.com/
http://www.pcengines.ch/
http://www.viaembedded.com/
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/

CompatFlash to IDE bridge, to get around flash rams finite writes copy
the system onto a ramdrive. If you need an example of how to do this
look at m0n0wall.

>=20
> Since I also want to start development in iPAQ for a
> GPS project, therefore I want to know whether there is
> a RTOS based on FreeBSD for this purpose. I found
> rtems is an open source RTOS, it ported tcp/ip stack
> from FreeBSD. But I don't know how to build its
> bootable CD ISO after I downloaded its source to one
> of my FreeBSD development server.

Why do you need RT? I would check around the NetBSD camp, this would
be right up their alley.

http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/embed.html



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