Way to build embedded firmware?

[ondra_knezour]

Hello All,

we have couple of types of diferent embedded HW, mainly Realtek/Atheros MIPS based routes running some kinds of Linux. I want to start experimenting with FreeBSD on them and looking for advice how to do that, starting with flashable firmware.

So my questions are:

• What information sources you can recommend,

• What is known/tested on this field, what materials to study (I'm aware of little info available on FreeBSD Wiki),

• What is known to have been done, but nobody yet started/finished that,

• What are esisting unresolved problems and ways to resolve them, proposed or known not been leadind to successfull end.

 

[aragon]

There is NanoBSD that's originally made for x86 embedded devices, but it shouldn't be too difficult to modify it to build to a MIPS target.

Have a look at the FreeBSD-embedded list too.