Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:39:19 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: David Morton <totoaus@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD idea Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3XWU8xzBLY_MrwLwD8UhJp1ho8uZxEj0vc0eHUXapqBw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> References: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:20 PM, David Morton <totoaus@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial > IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of > interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. > > A local magazine, Silicon Chip; and one of it's writers have developed a > little computer called the MaxiMite. Details here: > http://geoffg.net/maximite.**html <http://geoffg.net/maximite.html>; It's > a PIC32 single chip computer that I use through USB emulation of a serial > port. > > I would like to try and build on it, and the first thought would be if it > could run a limited version of BSD, as an alternative OS using the same > boot loader. Microchip has an IDE, with a free version that uses C, and I > speculate that much of the OS could be stored of the SD card, with only the > barest minimum in the on board flash. > > I'm not dumping this all on others though, I am looking at adding extra > RAM, and wired Ethernet; probably through an alternative hardware > equivalent from Olimex that is due soon. > > Please reply direct to me, I haven't found how to get on the mailing list, > or decided if I should. > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/mips.html You might have better luck with freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-mips@ -- Adam Vande More
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