Advanced Chips to run an operating system such as FreeBSD

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bryan1

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G'day Guy's,
After a good chat with a mate about running 'squid' I'm wondering if any of these arm chips or any other chips are capable of running FreeBSD. I do feel if this is possible lets make this project open source and Bill's pic32 thread could pail into insignificance.

Regards Bryan
 
I'm listening.

My project is not a Linux box but instead more like this.

An inexpensive Linux based controller would be a welcome addition, here's the rub. PogoPlug's (Linux based NAS) go on sale all the time for $69, although it's a little slow as a NAS it's some cheap hardware and would be hard to beat cost wise as a DIY product. It's also I/O poor as are most NAS. I guess what I'm putting together with the MX32 would be a NAC.
 
Certainly a possibility, but's it very limited in pretty much everything by Linux standards. On the other hand it's almost overkill as an I/O bridge / controller. You don't need many MIPs to turn on a light or two...
 
Hmmm...perhaps placing a ARM CPU IP core & HDD controller core (& optional GPU core) into an FPGA which can also handle any glue logic and USB & other I/O would deliver the MIPS u want.
 
Guy's as my mate said linux and FreeBSD are two different things, be80be showed a chip that might handle it but the real Q here is are you guys prepared to throw up source code for the benefit of the forum.?? The Question I did ask is are the members of this forum are prepared to make this an open source project.
 
Well I'm doing the hardware layout for the 32MX board. I'm not familiar with FreeBSD I'll look at it though.

What is the advantage of FreeBSD vs Linux?
 
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What chip arm or pic Pic would be nice but the arm9 is a speed house 1ghz

What is the advantage of FreeBSD vs Linux?
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FreeBSD has much less bloat then Linux. FreeBSD would probably run real fast on the pic32
 
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