From owner-freebsd-small Sun Feb 7 14:48:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28188 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28178 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:48:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA19783; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:55:05 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:55:05 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for help - FreeBSD/PicoBSD presentation In-Reply-To: <199902072235.OAA07961@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was asked to do a presentation on "FreeBSD in embedded applications" at > > a NordU99 (Nordic USENIX/EurOpen) conference in Stockholm. This is very > > short term (the presentation itself will take place on Feb 12th), and I > > could do with some help. :-) There will be quite a few famous names there > > (you can see for yoursefl: http://www.europen.se/NordU99 ). > > > > What I basically need is some examples of embedded solutions you based on > > FreeBSD - I know of a few of them, but I need more information about such > > things as: hardware (CPU, RAM, peripherals), functions performed, your > > impressions wrt. the efficiency and stability, possible directions for > > development, etc... > > If you haven't already heard from Daniel O'Connor > (doconnor@gsoft.com.au), here's some skeletal information on what we did > at Genesis while I was there. Daniel took over my job, and he can talk > a lot more about what they're doing now, but in my time we deployed a > couple of embedded FreeBSD products as controllers in specialised > research radar applications. [snip] Great, that's very useful information. This is a good example of what you can achieve with FreeBSD. Thanks! (The situation now is that I'm just beginning to write this - this presentation was supposed to be done by someone else, who thought it would be a good idea if I were to present it instead, hehe.. :-> So, we switched quite unexpectedly). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message