Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:43:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" <roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minimum HW requirement Message-ID: <200001121643.IAA02293@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:58:32 %2B0100." <387C8888.948219A9@agie.ch>
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> Hi there. > > I'd like to use picoBSD in an embedded system with very > small resorces. It should be a 386 with just 1 or 2 Mb RAM. > > The system is a deeply embedded one, with no networking, nor > graphics, sound, TCPIP, etc... > > All it needs would be a multitasking kernel, message queues, > semaphores, pipes, memory management, I/O system, > parallel port, and a couple of serial ports. > > I'd like to know how hard scaling down picoBSD to fit these > constraints would be. "How long is a piece of string"? Seriously, without knowing what resources or experience you have available, all that can reasonably be said is "yes, it's possible". There's at least one product I'm aware of using a cut-down FreeBSD on a 386ex in 2MB of RAM. I think that still has networking in the system too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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