Hello,
My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly.
I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based
system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage industrial domain
in P.R.China now, and linux is the most popular OS.
But the linux kernel 2.6 is more and more complex. I think an
embedded system should be brief or laconic which is the feature
of OpenBSD and NetBSD.
I intend to make some effort to let people substitute linux for
OpenBSD in P.R.China, such as port OpenBSD to Samsung S3Cxxx,
Cirrus EP9xxx and Freescale i.MX, etc., publicize the good features of
OpenBSD and offer some technical supports.
Would I be encouraged? I visit the web site of OpenBSD and find
the supported platforms should be self-compile itself and one of the
project goal is greater integration of cryptographic software.
But usually ther is no IDE disks in an arm9 based system, at most
a 64MB flash chip. So it can not self-compile. And the resource is limitted,
in some circumstance integration of cryptographic software is unnecessary,
such as industrial control and some handhelds equipment.
Would I be encouraged by the OpenBSD organization and get supported
to just port OpenBSD kernel to arm based board and only run some necessary
applications.(Actually busybox and some controlling programs in a
controlling
circumstance is enough.)
Thank you for reply.
Bin Shi in China.
