From owner-freebsd-small Thu Sep 21 8:50:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37D137B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05354; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:50:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.0/8.8.3) with ESMTP id e8LFotG20763; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:50:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009211550.e8LFotG20763@billy-club.village.org> To: Phillip Musumeci Subject: Re: Any recommendations for single board embedded FreeBSD systems? Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:27:44 +1100." <14793.61515.103923.891853@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> References: <14793.61515.103923.891853@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:50:55 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14793.61515.103923.891853@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> Phillip Musumeci writes: : Has anyone got got any experience with single board embedded systems : running FreeBSD (or any of the BSDs)? I have a project that would prefer : to buy hardware that is known to work with a BSD OS "as-is". Yes. At Timing Solutions, we've run them on 4 or 5 different boards. Two from Axiom, one from Teknor, one frmo adastra and one from megatel. So far we've not hit one that won't work. I've also run them on Advantec for a consulting client. : We would probably want the system to use an M-systems flash memory device : (e.g. the FreeBSD device "fla" in /sys/contrib/dev/fla). As long as you get good parts, fla works great. There was a while a time ago when they had a lot of bad parts in the channels. This has been corrected. We went with using compact flash in an IDE adapter because that was a little cheaper, the parts were more widely available and we had been given, at the time, 9 month lead times on the doc2k parts. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message