Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:01:42 +0100 From: teima@kk.etx.ericsson.se (Valter Mazzaro) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Embedded FreeBSD Message-ID: <199801300901.KAA09509@kk661.kk.etx.ericsson.se>
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Hello, we are a small group of people working on a distributed access router prototype. Each forwarding engine/egress port is constituted by a 200 Mhz Pentium Pro machine with FreeBSD as Net OS. It works great! At the moment we are investigating the possibility of implementing a router card, i.e. a board substituting each Pentium PC. We are trying to understand if we need to have a complete and commercial RTOS or we can live with a BSD-like product. As we are not so experienced in the embedded products field, I'm wondering if some of you guys can give us an hint about it. 1) Is it possible to embed FreeBSD or whichever BSD on a single board system? 2) Do you have any pointer to www sites, specific mailing lists, articles, books, etc. that can help us? As you understand, we don't need just a yes/no answer, even because running through the mailing lists archive it seems that is an old question, and the answer it should be yes. What we need is to have any indication about HOW to do it (stripped down systems, prom as virtual disks, embedded SW structure, SW loading on the on-board processor, an so on) We don't like so much the idea of leaving FreeBSD, all of us are very astonished how well it works, but the problem is that we lack information for this further step. Thanx in advance Valter
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