From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 23:38:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D00516A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:38:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B332343D2F for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:38:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from april.chuckr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAL04GDm055471 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:04:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost)iAL04GPq055468 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:04:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) X-Authentication-Warning: april.chuckr.org: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:04:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041120185823.O38351@april.chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: implementation X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:38:37 -0000 I have been thinking of a private hobby project, to try to implement FreeBSD on a palmtop based upon a version of the xscale processor. I have several good reasons to try this. Currently, there is a version of Linux running on it, so I expect not to have too hard a job of getting it booted, but I haven't really tracked FreeBSD, from a very lo-level standpoint, since FreeBSD-2.2 ... I don't know if FreeBSD remains a good platform for such and item or not. The image has to be, roughly speaking, capabable of running in a 64 Megabyte memory footprint. The spacific machine in my mind is the Zaurus. Am I talking to a bad spot here, abusing the list? Is there a better place to try to launch off this subject? I would like to see if anyone else wants to chat about it. I'm not yet looking for any help on it, I'm not sure it;s a really big enough job for that, but I would like to jaw a bit, if you catch my drift. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------