On Nov 24, 2007 3:13 AM, PowerMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
The OpenBSD devs are always looking for hardware companies that are friendly (i.e. will supply good documentation for hardware). OpenBSD has been ported to the ARM processor. See http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html That port is primarily meant for the zaurus devices, but it's possible you could adapt it (and write drivers for it) to elsewhere. -Nick
