From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 6 0:39:34 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 8B99537B403 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=a3bfc92705be4431e150b06cb215a8c9) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15IQHq-0000BM-00; Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:44:26 -0600 Message-ID: <3B456C5A.8FDC8ED6@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:44:26 -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: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, nate@yogotech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD References: <12d.dc435a.28724adf@aol.com> <3B41BA57.48F3788A@mindspring.com> 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 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. -- "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