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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:26:07 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Brad Walker <bwalker@musings.com>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ? about kernel size..
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Brad Walker <bwalker@musings.com> wrote:

> Correct.
>
> But, are you saying that no engineering has been done on this yet OR no
> amount of engineering could make it work?
>
> For example, I'm pretty well versed in the Solaris kernel stuff and there
> is really no amount of engineering that could make it work in a non-MMU
> environment..
>
> I was thinking, at least in my mind, is that if Linux can do it certainly
> FreeBSD could if the work was done. Am I incorrect?
>
>
It might be possible. No body has done it. It's a bit of a heavy lift.

You might be happier looking at a port of retrobsd.org's 2.11 port to tiny
mips devices.

Warner



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