Embedded FreeBSD Presentation...

Eduardo nec556 at retena.com
Sun May 14 07:16:21 UTC 2006


Sorry, i reply it directly to gnn, not to the list.

At 05:23 12/05/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I gave the following short talk at the BSDCan DevSummit.  This is the
>first attempt at a list of things to do in getting us better
>represented in the embedded systems space.
>
>The slides are at:
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~gnn/EFreeBSD.pdf
>
>Comments welcome.

Is this really possible:? Sorry for be a bit unoptimist, but in the 
embeded space the o.s.must follow some rules that freebsd (nor linux, 
*bsd, windows, etc..) can't:

- size: The o.s. must be minimal. Freebsd kernel, now, is a bit huge.
- realtime: The o.s. must do some tasks at fixed times, this tasks 
can't wait for nothing.

The size one can be fixed, but the realtime not. It needs a new 
scheleude, irq manager,...; so a great kernel rework.

Also, you forget the PowerPC chips. They are in a lot of embedded 
devices and now freebsd has support for them (6.x).


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