From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 03:37:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530C316A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 03:37:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from proxy.ddcom.co.jp (proxy.ddcom.co.jp [211.121.191.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18B1643DDA for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 03:37:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rees@ddcom.co.jp) Received: (qmail 29929 invoked by alias); 17 May 2005 03:48:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO matthew) (10.10.10.11) by mail.ddcom.local with SMTP; 17 May 2005 03:48:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:37:17 +0900 From: Joel To: "Freebsd-Questions" In-Reply-To: <006801c55a27$81afbe90$b700a8c0@w2k2> References: <006801c55a27$81afbe90$b700a8c0@w2k2> Message-Id: <20050517122525.293C.REES@ddcom.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.06 Subject: Re: running FreeBSD 4.11 or 5.4 on a SBC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 03:37:22 -0000 > I have a need for a Single Board Computer (SBC), something like the TS-5600 > > http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts5600-spec-p.php > > My requirements are: > > +100MHz CPU > Wireless 802.11b > 3 or 4 Serial ports > boot from a CF card > 8 ch. A/D > 2 ch. D/A > less than 5 watts of power! > > is this do-able in FreeBSD? It has been done. You could probably find something about several such projects by searching on your favorite search engine for "sbc freebsd" or something similar. As noted, netbsd, openbsd, and various flavors of Linux have also been used in this sort of device with good results. (More terms you might want to search on.) > Since I am on this subject, I was going to use an old P-120 motherboard > running with a hard drive for development. > Does any one know of a cheep A/D - D/A and DIO PCI card that can be used > with FreeBSD? Again, they exist. You'll probably come across such hardware while doing the above searches. > I am hoping to most of the development in C (little as possible, as I am > just learning C), and shell scripts. You'll probably find some mailing lists in the process as well, where you can get help with this. Have fun. :-) -- Joel Rees digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** **