On May 25, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <472414CE-94E8-4C8A-9586-DCA9E02A53C3_at_netgate.com>, Jim > Thompson wri > tes: > >>> NanoBSD caters only to the "run read-only from flash" area, call >>> it if you will the "soekris" area. I need to investigate if it >>> makes sense to use the FreeSBIE framework to build nanobsd images. >> >> All soekris boards have CF, which looks, for all the world like an >> IDE drive. >> >> "real" flash is quite different. > > NanoBSD works fine with "raw" flash as well because it is practically > read-only. OK, there are other read-only distros too (the pfsense 'embedded' one is all but RO). Technically, if one could squeeze NanoBSD into 4-8MB, we could use the pfsense/ m0n0 XML-based config system, and just keep the config file in a single (or small number) of flash sectors at the end of the device. A similar configuration system that didn't require PHP would be even better. Then we just need to (perhaps) re-implement/replace the linux "mtd" system, and a F(F)FS can wait a bit. > Writing a flash-friendly-filesystem would be a good project. Indeed. Is there any reason to not approach Intel about a bit of 'funding' for FreeBSD on Xscale? They poured some cash on Wasabi for a similar effort on NetBSD.Received on Thu May 25 2006 - 13:52:29 UTC
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