On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:23 +0000, Frank Duignan wrote:
> How about using open source tools to develop on embedded systems (and all
> the work that needs to be done in this space...)
> f.
If you haven't already seen it NANO-BSD is very nice for doing embedded
stuff
Like a lot of BSD stuff the documentation isn't too good but nano is
very cool, basically anything you can do in freebsd you can do in nano
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html
I built a very nice ipv6 stratum 1 NTP server using it, you can see the
hardware here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bminish/sets/72157603664596214/
balrog# uptime
5:50PM up 79 days, 2 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.21, 0.44, 0.44
balrog# ntpdc -pn
remote local st poll reach delay offset disp
=======================================================================
=84.18.164.36 192.168.0.216 2 64 377 0.02419 0.001637 0.00185
=193.120.142.71 192.168.0.216 2 64 376 0.01459 0.000262 0.00247
=127.127.20.0 127.0.0.1 0 16 377 0.00000 0.009838 0.00026
=209.132.176.4 192.168.0.216 1 64 275 0.17693 0.005036 0.00645
=193.120.10.3 192.168.0.216 1 64 377 0.01569 -0.000391 0.00426
=2001:610:240:2: 2001:770:180:0: 1 64 377 0.06702 0.016185 0.00119
=83.138.191.59 192.168.0.216 2 64 377 0.02322 0.001682 0.00256
*127.127.22.0 127.0.0.1 0 16 377 0.00000 0.000000 0.00026
=139.143.5.30 192.168.0.216 2 64 177 0.02533 -0.001157 0.00397
=139.143.5.31 192.168.0.216 2 64 377 0.02638 0.000356 0.00104
=82.195.149.117 192.168.0.216 2 64 377 0.01570 -0.000243 0.00551
=134.226.32.57 192.168.0.216 3 64 377 0.01547 0.000017 0.00269
balrog# ntptime
ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK)
time cb97ae72.6ad527c0 Fri, Mar 28 2008 17:50:42.417, (.417315982),
maximum error 7258 us, estimated error 15 us, TAI offset 0
ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK)
modes 0x0 (),
offset 0.062 us, frequency -0.028 ppm, interval 1 s,
maximum error 7258 us, estimated error 15 us,
status 0x2001 (PLL,NANO),
time constant 4, precision 0.001 us, tolerance 496 ppm,
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