So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:41:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:43:12AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> >>http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
> >
> >
> >As others already said - to small to run FreeBSD.
> >No MMU, very tight RAM and code space.
> >Note that they are not based on Linux, but on uCLinux, which is
> >something different.
> >RTEMS should be a good candidate - it is not Linux, but unfortunately
> >has large portions under GPL too.
> >But considered the small price distance to the smallest Soekris,
> >which runs FreeBSD, only the size and supply power is an interesting
> >point.
> >
> 
> An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very worthwhile, even if it
> requires a radical divergence from the original codebase.  I was
> hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD, but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.

It's a matter on how far you want to go.
There are many MMU and GPL less solutions available.
The following can be considered as the other extrem end:
uIP, lwIP, Nut/OS, ...
Just having the essential to run network based services.
There is very much room of what people might expect from systems
with more features.

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