Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:55:20 +0100 From: "James Mansion" <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, <small@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <HCEPKPMCAJLDGJIBCLGHMEFHFGAA.james@wgold.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2538.1148556253@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>FreeBSD is a great operating system for embedded use and people >all over the world use this to their advantage. This is really nice to see. I'd also urge you to widen it to a more general 'customised constrained boot environment' though, even if teh focus is quite different. The sort of thing I'd be interested in would be PXE-booting a 'bootstrap system' with minimalist facilities, then mounting drives from iSCSI (or NFS, CIFS etc) and extending to have a more complete but still highly customised environment, whether to support compute blades or diskless workstations (using the wonderful nVidia and ATI hardware support that Linux will by then lack, ha ha ;-)). Its this first stage where you can get up and running that I think might share some of the same issues. James
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