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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 17:38:12 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda 
Message-ID:  <3500.1148571492@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2006 05:27:30 -1000." <472414CE-94E8-4C8A-9586-DCA9E02A53C3@netgate.com> 

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In message <472414CE-94E8-4C8A-9586-DCA9E02A53C3@netgate.com>, Jim Thompson wri
tes:

>> NanoBSD caters only to the "run read-only from flash" area, call
>> it if you will the "soekris" area.  I need to investigate if it
>> makes sense to use the FreeSBIE framework to build nanobsd images.
>
>All soekris boards have CF, which looks, for all the world like an  
>IDE drive.
>
>"real" flash is quite different.

NanoBSD works fine with "raw" flash as well because it is practically
read-only.

Writing a flash-friendly-filesystem would be a good project.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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