Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD. No MMU, very tight RAM and code space. Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is something different. RTEMS should

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Long
Bernd Walter wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD. No MMU, very tight RAM and code space. Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is something

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:41:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: Bernd Walter wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD. No MMU, very tight RAM and code space. Note that

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very worthwhile, even if it requires a radical divergence from the original codebase. I was woudn''t it be rather inefficient (in the BEST case) -handling numerous memory contextx -1 per process? hoping

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is something different. Not really. It's just a linux kernel compiled without support for MMUs. Which compiles out most of the linux VM code and adds some smart stubs

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:13:07AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: --- Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very worthwhile, even if it requires a radical divergence from the original codebase. I was woudn''t it be rather inefficient (in

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:36 +0200: But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris, which runs FreeBSD, only the size and supply power is an interesting point. Or you can look at the TS-7200 from http://www.embeddedarm.com/ . It's smaller than

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:12:05AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:36 +0200: But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris, which runs FreeBSD, only the size and supply power is an interesting point. Or you can

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 23:06 +0200: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:12:05AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:36 +0200: But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris, which runs FreeBSD,

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:33:48PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 23:06 +0200: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:12:05AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:36 +0200: But considered the

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-31 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Bernd Walter wrote this message on Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 00:54 +0200: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:33:48PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Bernd Walter wrote this message on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 23:06 +0200: And the 4526 doesn't need regulated power plus has onboard ata flash. also looks

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-30 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html It's an AMR7, which is pretty minimal. I'm not sure if the existing ARM code has any considerations for scaling that low. Would be a very interesting project, though. Scott ___

Re: So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-30 Thread Kevin Lo
Wilko Bulte wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html Netsilicon's NS7520 is ARM7TDMI based processor and no MMU. That would not be a good choice for running FreeBSD :-) Kevin ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

2005-03-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL