? about kernel size..

[Brad Walker]

One other thing.

I'm sure that I could do it but a couple of big issues come to mind.

First, for the effort involved, how would I make money? I've got a family
to raise and well the bills have to get paid. I truly admire all these
people that seem to have copious amounts of time to do work freely. Back
when I was a single guy in Silicon Valley, I could do it. But, not now.

Lastly, if I invested the time, effort, and money into this, would it be
something the community would look favorably on and accept into the source
tree? I would hate to see the work not make it into the mainline.

Like I said, if Linux can do it then why not FreeBSD? I would love to see
this work correctly on FreeBSD.

-brad w.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Brad Walker <bwalker at musings.com> wrote:
>
>> Correct.
>>
>> But, are you saying that no engineering has been done on this yet OR no
>> amount of engineering could make it work?
>>
>> For example, I'm pretty well versed in the Solaris kernel stuff and there
>> is really no amount of engineering that could make it work in a non-MMU
>> environment..
>>
>> I was thinking, at least in my mind, is that if Linux can do it certainly
>> FreeBSD could if the work was done. Am I incorrect?
>>
>>
> It might be possible. No body has done it. It's a bit of a heavy lift.
>
> You might be happier looking at a port of retrobsd.org's 2.11 port to
> tiny mips devices.
>
> Warner
>