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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2006 22:52:09 +0200
From:      Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org>
To:        nec556@retena.com,  small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda
Message-ID:  <44776A79.7010808@freesbie.org>
In-Reply-To: <13295.1148673037369.JavaMail.root@webmail03>
References:  <13295.1148673037369.JavaMail.root@webmail03>

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nec556@retena.com ha scritto:
>> What "Freesbie" are you talking about? Phk was referring to the second=

>> version of the toolkit I presented recently in Ottawa, that is perfect=
ly
>> usable for embedded system and it's ready to welcome new platforms. It=

>> is already ported for powerpc architecture and I want it to be ported =
to
>> the arm and other archs (I don't have the hardware). Porting is really=

>> trivial. I suggest you to take a look:
>>
>=20
> It works for powerpc??  Is it available for download or only via cvs?

I made only test ISOs and usb images to proof the toolkit works, during
the former SoC.

>> http://www.freesbie.org/~saturnero/FreeSBIE-BSDCan06-devsummit.pdf
>>
>> anonymous@cvs.freesbie.org module freesbie2 or:
>> http://bugs.freesbie.org/dir?d=3Dfreesbie2
>=20
> Also, you have forget that a flash memory is not needed, our device jus=
t have a little rom with a micro o.s. (Contiki) and download the real o.s=
=2E from ethernet using tftp. The storage system is on a server, where ea=
ch device has a 'slice' for each one.

Yes, an interesting idea is to make a ISO/image with a PXE server
environment already configured, so you can use i.e. in a lab to make all
machines booting diskless.

--=20
Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org)
FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc


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