At Mon, 29 May 2006 16:05:32 -0700,
Michael Sierchio wrote:
>
> shilo layston wrote:
>
> > Poul-Henning Kamp sez...
>
> >> FreeBSD is a great operating system for
embedded use and people all over
> >> the world use this to their advantage.
> >
> > Judging on what I have heard over my career in
embedded development,
> > *BSD (let alone FreeBSD) is almost completely
unknown in the embedded market.
> > WindRiver, GreenHills, QNX, ... and possibly some
Linuxs are the owners
> > of that marketplace. [Maybe the notable
exception is Juniper Networks;
> > I've heard they're a big BSD shop]
>
> If you had the slightest idea what you were talking
about, you'd know
> the provenance of WindRiver and VxWorks and the
embedded OS in Brocade
> fiber channel switches, etc. etc. are all BSD.
Sort of, but not really. Having spent 5 years at Wind River
a lot of
that code is not related to BSD, but the network stack was
and likely
still is, so it really depends on what part of the system
you're
talking about. Interrupts, mutexes, and all the other core,
low level
parts of VxWorks that people in the embedded world care
about has
nothing to do with BSD.
The important part for us, and I think that Robert brought
this out
quite well, is how we compare, and what we have to do, in
order to
compete in that market and to make it easier for embedded
developers
to choose and use BSD. I'll be incorporating some of his
suggestions
into the Embedded FreeBSD web site I'm building right now.
Later,
George
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