Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:38:37 -0700 From: Brad Walker <bwalker@musings.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ? about kernel size.. Message-ID: <CAPKZHbXkpoVc3G0yyFQec2r27sw7QGiM5G8aFcb0uJnJZhxRag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqXfwF_umVBD8V7x=PtcCv1ANGnN3PsM2WabLa5qHAPtg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPKZHbVyPji-bZwDzM77TN6qybjRcf%2BZe5r6WZmbG98LkhT-rg@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfriqr24Lh9ZuptaC0gEm6gAV6LN9XHcVAJtbyaBejEgNg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPKZHbW%2BG7WnSU__yeYBVPqs8MPmFm-5q_wM4sm9FxHhEEgPDg@mail.gmail.com> <1457473674.1406.46.camel@freebsd.org> <CAPKZHbX8BXKC_=8PPvtasqE%2BRj96_mPQkqdRt=hqU6fazxpPfA@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfqXfwF_umVBD8V7x=PtcCv1ANGnN3PsM2WabLa5qHAPtg@mail.gmail.com>
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One other thing. I'm sure that I could do it but a couple of big issues come to mind. First, for the effort involved, how would I make money? I've got a family to raise and well the bills have to get paid. I truly admire all these people that seem to have copious amounts of time to do work freely. Back when I was a single guy in Silicon Valley, I could do it. But, not now. Lastly, if I invested the time, effort, and money into this, would it be something the community would look favorably on and accept into the source tree? I would hate to see the work not make it into the mainline. Like I said, if Linux can do it then why not FreeBSD? I would love to see this work correctly on FreeBSD. -brad w. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Brad Walker <bwalker@musings.com> wrote: > >> Correct. >> >> But, are you saying that no engineering has been done on this yet OR no >> amount of engineering could make it work? >> >> For example, I'm pretty well versed in the Solaris kernel stuff and there >> is really no amount of engineering that could make it work in a non-MMU >> environment.. >> >> I was thinking, at least in my mind, is that if Linux can do it certainly >> FreeBSD could if the work was done. Am I incorrect? >> >> > It might be possible. No body has done it. It's a bit of a heavy lift. > > You might be happier looking at a port of retrobsd.org's 2.11 port to > tiny mips devices. > > Warner >
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