Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:12:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, small@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <44760FC6.9080906@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4637.1148585085@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <4637.1148585085@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <4476036F.4090302@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes: > >> This sounds like an awefuly fun project to me. Is anyone (PHK?) willing >> to help me with some of the FreeBSD kernel related issues? If so, I'd >> like to work on this. > > As I said earlier, I'm still constrained by a NDA in this area. Being filesystems, or flash, or both? > It's not rocket science however, so if you sit down and read a couple > of flash-chip data-sheets carefully and think about the restrictions > and limitations, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a good design. A pointer to a decent commonly used flash chip would help, although I'm sure I can find something with enough time plus google. > You can do most of the work in userland in a simulation, and once you > have the read/write/erase ratio where you want it, migrate the result > to the kernel. Good point.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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