From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 10 2: 5:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70A3153B9 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA05753 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:06:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199908100906.TAA05753@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: FreeBSD on VMEbus To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:06:53 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there anyone using FreeBSD on a VMEbus PC? I have an application which should use VxWorks like the rest of the project, but since this part has been subcontracted, Wind River wants A$35,000 for an OEM licence for the right to link to their libraries. Blood suckers. They only charge A$5990 for the tools! I am being pressured to write a kernel driver for NT to run on the same machine that is doing some pretty heavy FFT calculations using LabView. I want to put a box in between, and if I can't have a realtime operating system, then I need something that I can embedded, like FreeBSD. The question is: out of all the VMEbus PCs available, which one is the best choice based on drivers working out-of-the box? Ethernet is particularly important. For those who are interested, here is a link to the main project: (JORN). Please save me from a fate worse than death. I got this contact on the basis that it _wasn't_ a Microsoft development, so either I need to jump off the nearest tall building, walk away, or find an alternative... -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message