From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 6 0:13:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07D937B405 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=66fbcc5e0b410fffc07a13cbe683a866) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15IPsb-0000Al-00; Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:18:21 -0600 Message-ID: <3B45663D.5660766F@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:18:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 07/03/2001 11:57:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > noses@noses.com writes: > > > > > > Now try to imagine a whole PC on a smaller board than a PIII CPU > > > > cartridge. If you can't, get a copy of the Embedded Systems magazine > > > > and look at the pictures in it. > > > > > > Imagine a complete 80186 system with 512k RAM and 512K flash disk, two > > > serial ports, 14 digital IO lines and an Ethernet in a 32 pin DIL package. > > > They are planning to replace the 80186 module by a 80386 in a few weeks. > > > If you can't belive it you might take a look at www.bcl.de. Now if it only > > > had enough flash for a PicoBSD it might make a good pocket ISDN router... > > > > > > > We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet, > > so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here. > > So try the MachZ processor then... Screw the MachZ, look at PowerPC 405GP, Intel XScale, or any other processor that was *designed* for embedded communications work. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message