FreeBSD on embedded systems

[Bob Pickles]

Hi

For you interest, I have implemented a PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card)
driver for one of our products for a French company over 1 year
ago. FreeBSD is a nice stable platform, to develop with.

There are many Intel based VME and cPCI system Single Board Computers
in the market place. It would be nice if FreeBSD were also compatible
with Power PC, then more military suppliers might look at this as an
option.

Regards

Bob Pickles


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-arch at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-arch at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of M. Warner Losh
Sent: 14 November 2005 04:28
To: scottl at samsco.org
Cc: phk at phk.freebsd.dk; Juergen.Dankoweit at T-Online.de;
freebsd-arch at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on embedded systems

In message: <43762910.3080305 at samsco.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
: > In message
<1131786743.2050.7.camel at primergy470.juergendankoweit.net>, Juergen 
: > Dankoweit writes:
: > 
: > 
: >>My question is now: is there an overview on which embedded systems
: >>FreeBSD runs?
: > 
: > 
: > Typically in this space, people select hardware based on I/O
: > requirements and there is plenty to pick at.
: > 
: > FreeBSD runs on pretty much anything with an i386 compatible CPU,
: > and the soekris is merely the hackers favourite.
: > 
: > Maintaining a comprehensive list would be a bit of work, but not
: > a lot of work, so if somebody volunteers for it, I'm sure we can
: > find a spot for it on our web-pages.
: > 
: 
: FreeBSD is also being made to run on a variety of smaller ARM
platforms
: right now like the ARM920T.  It might also be possible to get a PPC
: platform like the 405G/440G working without a whole lot of work.

The StrongArm stuff also is in decent shape.  The ARM920T core needs
glue for the different types of ARM processors by different OEMs.
There's some work on the ep9301 in the p4 repo right now which gets at
least one eval board working (see http://www.embeddedarm.com/ for the
TS7200 and TS7250).  Other cores are also in the pipeline.

Warner
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