FreeBSD as an embedded platform

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 05:18:26 UTC 2015


Hi,

What performance issues have you seen with freebsd-10.1 ? You can
always compile it with the in-tree gcc compiler instead.



-a


On 28 September 2015 at 20:55, Gerry Weaver <gerryw at compvia.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have an embedded router project coming up and I was considering FreeBSD as a possible platform. However, I have run into a few issues getting a stable development environment setup. I started with FreeBSD 10.1, but quickly realized that the new toolchain needs to cook a while longer before the performance will be there. I then tried FreeBSD 9.3 thinking that would improve the situation. It does seem to solve the performance issues, but I'm finding that many of the third party open source libraries I would like to use either don't compile or don't run. Admittedly the last time I worked with FreeBSD was in the version 6 timeframe, but I don't remember having so many issues back then. I would really like to hear what other folks that are using FreeBSD as an embedded platform are doing in this regard. Are you using versions that are older than 9.3 or restricting yourselves to what is in the ports tree? The need to port and test a bunch of libraries would make a significant impact on pr
>  oject stability and development time. Any advice on this would be much appreciated. There may be some kernel work involved and I would much rather work with the FreeBSD kernel.
>
> Thanks,
> -G
>
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