From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 03:39:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD972106564A for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645C48FC12 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so123242faa.13 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:39:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=IHk1us5FIazddZbdHjv/rM4Pgy/iR6UlevNr4A3ZUXU=; b=c9sH5T8tuJ7v/X3WmePHkTeXy94HyIZhScDv1EZS/hGdA1iXaD4dy8bBYN9DJ8PZlS rh+HMkC5hL3RkWGgIGrJvYqf4abb7XGn4/pDz1YyWvLLiqmDePo/vmA6HesJ8RjEg5S9 PPK6S8rweZYmCMI9EbWTqCu6CzEEpjpRnN9jg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.75.129 with SMTP id y1mr1986269faj.1.1320723560253; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.88.72 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:39:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> References: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:39:19 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: David Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:39:22 -0000 On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:20 PM, David Morton 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 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