I'd love to have this discussion on the list for the record, in case someone in the future wants to give this a shot, too.
On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, David Morton wrote: > I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT > help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of > interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. > > A local magazine, Silicon Chip; and one of it's writers have developed a > little computer called the MaxiMite. Details here: > http://geoffg.net/maximite.html It's a PIC32 single chip computer that I use > through USB emulation of a serial port. > > I would like to try and build on it, and the first thought would be if it > could run a limited version of BSD, as an alternative OS using the same boot > loader. Microchip has an IDE, with a free version that uses C, and I > speculate that much of the OS could be stored of the SD card, with only the > barest minimum in the on board flash. > > I'm not dumping this all on others though, I am looking at adding extra RAM, > and wired Ethernet; probably through an alternative hardware equivalent from > Olimex that is due soon. > > Please reply direct to me, I haven't found how to get on the mailing list, or > decided if I should. > > David > -- > David Morton > PO Box 216 > Geeveston TAS 7116 > AUSTRALIA > > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: 0400 560 330 > Skype: david-ah-morton > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
