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From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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"Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com> wrote:
>Is their a group of FreeBSD Enthusiasts that are working on porting free to
>embedded controllers that are not x86 I am in the process of developing a
>security / access / building management system, and am looking at using free
>on all my outlying units. I am not interested in using pc104 etc but using
>processors like the atmel thumb processor, this is a risc based uC capable
>of handling 64Mb of flash ram for program and working ram. why do I want an
>OS for an industrial app, simple some units may be standalone and need
>dialling into, building units will probably be TCP/IP.

I don't think that the Atmel ARM chips have a MMU. The cheapest ARM
CPUs that could run *BSD are the Cirrus Logic and Link-Up Systems ones.

You might want to take a look at running something like eCos instead.

Robert Swindells


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