From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 23:53:35 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 1721916A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6C943D39 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:53:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAKNu55f047115; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:56:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <419FD921.1070605@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:54:09 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <20041120185823.O38351@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20041120185823.O38351@april.chuckr.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:53:35 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. > Olivier Houchard has been making quite a bit of progress on the ARM/XScale port recently. I believe that he has an XScale dev board from Intel. You should talk to him to see how portable his work is to the Zaurus. Scott