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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!news From: "Marc E. Fiuczynski" <mef@cs.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: mef@cs.washington.edu Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <32B98527.1D2D@cs.washington.edu> References: <32B744C0.2DA9@wdc.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fastnet.cs.washington.edu Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:10:47 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32826 Darren, It would help if you could explain what features your embedded system must have to support the applications you wish to run. Without knowing that it is difficult to figure out what one should cut out from a workstation class operating system. For example, do you need networking? Are you going to be using ISA, PCI or VME? Do you need apps to run in their own address space? You may want to look at VxWorks from WindRiver Systems (www.wrs.com). Their embedded runtime is fairly straight forward, runs in a small amount of memory, supports all types of proc/bus archs, and has support for remote gdb, sockets & nfs, etc. It would be cool if you could come up with a free embedded os based on FreeBSD. :) Marc