Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:15:17 +1100 From: Jonathon Tidswell <jont@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathon Tidswell <jont@cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: status / appropriateness query Message-ID: <20001208131517.A29977@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Im involved with a project that is currently being pushed into Linux in an embedded space. I think Pico/Tiny BSD may be a reasonable alternative. But the PicoBSD web pages are getting old and getting a coherent picture from the freebsd-small list archive is hard. I suppose my major question is to what extend does Pico/Tiny BSD give me additional kernel tuning options over standard FreeBSD ? TIA - JonT PS Here are some basic details in case it helps. The project is basically an embedded computer on a PCI board with some custom hardware and some assurance requirements. Its not hard real time. The board has basically 486sx some flash memory (holds bootloader and some config info) a serial port a PCI interface 4MB ram some custom hardware (does specialised data processing) I dont think I need paging, there will probably always be less than twenty processes running on the system, I may need a socket interface, but only a little of networking, probably no buffer cache, maybe even no pseudo ttys, ... The currently proposed solution is linux paging back over the host interface. I'd rather no GPL, more RAM for caching and reduced host interface load. Of course I could be being greedy, since I really don't have time to fork a kernel project, and probably not the patience to debug it :-) [ Fortunately there is bootloader written & tested that loads the OS over the host interface so lots of testing/debugging is simplified already. ] -- Jon Tidswell <jont@cse.unsw.edu.au> School of Computer Science & Engineering University of NSW, 2052, Australia Disclaimer: I think my thoughts are my own, and I believe my writings are too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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