From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 12 8:10:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B8D37B405 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24721; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:10:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:10:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: , Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) In-Reply-To: <200107120521.f6C5L2P64207@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > It is true then that whatever your platform, and application, there > > *is* a BSD for you. > > The CRIS architecture ETRAX 100LX: > http://developer.axis.com/hardware/etrax100lx/ Getting FreeBSD, or any other BSD for that matter, running on this chip would be really neat. It looks like they have all of the technical stuff needed (instruction set documentation and a compiler, among other stuff) available freely on their website should someone want to tackle it. The ETRAX 100LX has an MMU whereas the previous ETRAX 100 did not, IIRC, which would be key to running anything with a unified VM system like FreeBSD, if I understand correctly. Having a 100MIPS CPU with USB, dual SCSI, quad ATA, 2-sync/4-async serial, and 2 parallel interfaces on a single small low-power chip is... uhm... amazing, to me. :-) We're using some of the products from Axis (print servers, storage servers, cd-rom servers, document servers, network cameras, etc.) which all use its predecessor the ETRAX 100 running Linux, and I've been very impressed with their performance and features. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64 (Itanium), PowerPC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message