FreeBSD's embedded agenda

[Eric Anderson]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4476036F.4090302 at centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
> 
>> This sounds like an awefuly fun project to me.  Is anyone (PHK?) willing 
>> to help me with some of the FreeBSD kernel related issues?  If so, I'd 
>> like to work on this.
> 
> As I said earlier, I'm still constrained by a NDA in this area.

Being filesystems, or flash, or both?


> It's not rocket science however, so if you sit down and read a couple
> of flash-chip data-sheets carefully and think about the restrictions
> and limitations, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a good design.

A pointer to a decent commonly used flash chip would help, although I'm 
sure I can find something with enough time plus google.


> You can do most of the work in userland in a simulation, and once you
> have the read/write/erase ratio where you want it, migrate the result
> to the kernel.

Good point..

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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