Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 22:52:09 +0200 From: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> To: nec556@retena.com, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <44776A79.7010808@freesbie.org> In-Reply-To: <13295.1148673037369.JavaMail.root@webmail03> References: <13295.1148673037369.JavaMail.root@webmail03>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] nec556@retena.com ha scritto: >> What "Freesbie" are you talking about? Phk was referring to the second >> version of the toolkit I presented recently in Ottawa, that is perfectly >> usable for embedded system and it's ready to welcome new platforms. It >> is already ported for powerpc architecture and I want it to be ported to >> the arm and other archs (I don't have the hardware). Porting is really >> trivial. I suggest you to take a look: >> > > It works for powerpc?? Is it available for download or only via cvs? I made only test ISOs and usb images to proof the toolkit works, during the former SoC. >> http://www.freesbie.org/~saturnero/FreeSBIE-BSDCan06-devsummit.pdf >> >> anonymous@cvs.freesbie.org module freesbie2 or: >> http://bugs.freesbie.org/dir?d=freesbie2 > > Also, you have forget that a flash memory is not needed, our device just have a little rom with a micro o.s. (Contiki) and download the real o.s. from ethernet using tftp. The storage system is on a server, where each device has a 'slice' for each one. Yes, an interesting idea is to make a ISO/image with a PXE server environment already configured, so you can use i.e. in a lab to make all machines booting diskless. -- Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org) FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org) GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEd2p9ymi72IiShysRAizrAKCIP83SAevuOCC1XfLPks2qV3IQdgCeP1cG 3koB+ZkzaEO5+pyoITPKJY8= =MMWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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