From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 16:03:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ADB16A4CE for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 16:03:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0AF43DC9 for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 16:03:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3385C53; Mon, 16 May 2005 12:03:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84657-01; Mon, 16 May 2005 12:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CA65C51; Mon, 16 May 2005 12:03:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4288C412.9010707@mac.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:02:26 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Hamilton References: <006801c55a27$81afbe90$b700a8c0@w2k2> In-Reply-To: <006801c55a27$81afbe90$b700a8c0@w2k2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: running FreeBSD 4.11 or 5.4 on a SBC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:03:21 -0000 Paul Hamilton wrote: [ ... ] > My requirements are: > > +100MHz CPU > Wireless 802.11b > 3 or 4 Serial ports > boot from a CF card > 8 ch. A/D > 2 ch. D/A > less than 5 watts of power! > > is this do-able in FreeBSD? The question doesn't really apply: FreeBSD is software, an OS. FreeBSD will run on most hardware including embedded systems like you describe, but you might want to consider NetBSD instead, as that system supports more odd hardware and focuses on a minimal-overhead base system that fits into CF better than FreeBSD does. I'm not sure you can obtain your requirements in less than 5W, but something from Soekris like this: http://www.soekris.com/net4526.htm ...would be a starting point. -- -Chuck