Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 04:00:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD as embedded system? Message-ID: <XFMail.971002041401.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Someone asked me something the other day that I honestly didn't know the answer to. I thought I'd pose to the group to see if anyone else knows, or better yet, has a working example of what I'm talking about. There have been several widely publicized examples of Linux (what's that? :) ) being run in an "embedded system" type of setup, such as the hydroponics(?) experiment on the recent Space Shuttle mission. Another example, published in the most recent Linux Journal, is a project at some university somewhere (sorry, don't have the issue handy) that made a computer-controlled robotic car (RoboCar) for a robotics contest... All (or most) of these setups involve a "PC on a card" type unit (where an entire PC, CPU, ISA Bus, perhaps Ethernet card, etc. is shrunk to fit on one or several stacked, really small cards) and a solid-state (i.e. memory-based) IDE disk (company thnat makes it is called SanDisk?) Also, typically, these systems don't come "fully loaded" (i.e. only a reduced set of commands, a smaller kernel, etc.) is isntalled, and they usually don't go through a full boot process (init, getty, etc.).. basically they boot up and run just a specific program, etc. Anyway, has FreeBSD ever been used in such a setup? Is it possible? What modifications (if any) would have to be made? And, if this has been done with FreeBSD, what manufacturers' hardware was used (i.e. what hardware is compatible?) TIA for your email responses... xample of what I'm talking about. There have been several widely publicized examples of Linux (what's that? :) ) being run in an "embedded system" type of setup, such as the hydroponics(?) experiment on the recent Space Sh - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNDOB+PjpixuAwagxAQH7lQQAnTprzfSVNBtzBZtZUPOVmo43PY369F7N FUXjo4+yM7XhcilENPKTI7qA3X6rhdrUqS7EqGwpy8QqmjVl+ruEWquLZI4vmyij A0Rlh/WiEv5kCj3ktEHbVh6prpaNxn3+CdHoNnlf9hy2TVSxI//jb6Ib+PN0fMGb WOnoFRiZP6s= =zCuF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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