Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:44:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, nate@yogotech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B456C5A.8FDC8ED6@softweyr.com> References: <12d.dc435a.28724adf@aol.com> <3B41BA57.48F3788A@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> I think you'll find that Wes Peters has worked on a number
> of them as well (one of his is now called "Intel InBusiness"
> servers).
My Internet Station ran VxWorks because we didn't have enough CPU
budget for anything else, and because we were fighting political
wars over a lot of issues back then. Later members of the InBusiness
line, produced to my great astonishment, did use FreeBSD, but not the
one that needed it the most -- the email server.
> Most of us were extremely pissed off when /dev/random went
> in and made 386 and 486 class hardware crawl on its knees,
> since embedded systems have different requirements for
> things like moving parts, heat dissipation, etc., than
> general purpose computers posing as embedded systems.
Trying to run any sort of SSL on a 486-class processor now is a losing
game, wiping out two entire generations of processors. PCs are very
expensive for such inexpensive computers.
Now I'm working on a design that is powered by a 12-volt deep cycle
battery and keep ending up with RTEMS or uClinux on the device because
*BSD doesn't really do low-power (as in current draw) hardware anymore.
I can base this project on an Atmel AT91 (ARM THUMB) or Motorola ColdFire
cpu, load a pretty much standard uClinux or RTEMS build on it, and still
be able to talk on the VHF, or I can run it on BSD and sell generators to
go with it.
<Sigh>
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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