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Subject: Re: Eclipse for Embedded FreeBSD?
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At Mon, 15 May 2006 08:47:19 -0400 (EDT),
Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > I think we'll need someone working in those areas first, unless, well,
> > you're volunteering ;-)
> 
> If I had no job, I would love to do that.  But realJob keeps me
> busy enough so that I have limited time.

I know how that is...

> There is someone that monitors the FreeBSD lists that would be
> willing to provide VME drivers for their VME-based SBCs, given
> enough need.  That would be great, but it'd be nice to have some
> sort of support for it in the tree, rather than something like the
> NVidia driver that may or may not work.

We'd need to have boards that ran this with interested people, but
there is no reason not to go this direction.  It's one of those
chicken and egg problems.  But if they're already using FreeBSD on
their stuff then looking at that code makes sense for us and them.

Later,
Geoge