From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 07:20:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2564216A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:20:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFA9543D46 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:20:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2005 07:20:08 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-017-029.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [127.0.0.1]) [84.63.17.29] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 08:20:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #931807 Message-ID: <437ADDA5.1020602@nurfuerspam.de> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:20:05 +0100 From: Markus Dolze User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <40829.202.6.86.1.1132097734.squirrel@202.6.86.1> <437AA355.4070608@shaw.ca> <34208.202.6.86.1.1132111345.squirrel@202.6.86.1> In-Reply-To: <34208.202.6.86.1.1132111345.squirrel@202.6.86.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: samwun@telpacific.com.au Subject: Re: embedded system based on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:20:20 -0000 samwun@telpacific.com.au wrote: > Not really those embedded stuff for robotics or instrumentation etc, but > rather than a thin internet gateway which only perform few functions. The > SBC doesn't need to have USB ports, Video port, IDE hdd slot and no need > to support SCSI. So I expect this sort of SBC is around $70 USD.. But I > could not find one with this price range that suppport freebsd, althought > ARM has a product at $65 / board. Linux eCos do support this low-cost ARM > board very well, but I don't want to use linux based embedded system for > my entire project development. > If you are looking for something to be used as an internet gateway, have a look at the WRAP boards from pc-engines (http://www.pcengines.ch/). They are cheaper than Soekris and have three ethernet ports. Markus