From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregg C Levine" Subject: Re: Ram , Flash requirements? Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:28:31 -0400 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <002401c211b0$76fb6b60$9460580c@who> References: <20020611110903.Q20181-100000@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ELKS Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually that may have been what I posted, but I think you've not read it correctly. I said that it would run on that processor, but that according to Alan Cox, a worker in the field of regular Linux whose opinions I value strongly, suggested that the onchip peripherals of the 80186 family would only be supported with work. Or something like that. I then suggested that the original poster should check the archives of the list for Alan's actual answer. I copied my answer to the list, because the original poster of the question replied only to me. I suspect he didn't realize that when you click reply on most Microsoft mailer programs it goes the to name on the message, not to the list. And yes, I don't doubt that normal ELKS code will run natively on all 8086 based hardware. The 80186 is a special case because it was designed for embedded applications. I think the sibo code would run on it, but I don't know. That's what I am suggesting. Have you yourself tried it? I haven't. I am basing this on my many years of experience in the field. Gregg C Levine obiwanthejediknight@att.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Olson" To: "ELKS" Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: Re: Ram , Flash requirements? > > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers > > I do not know. I simply asked whose design this unit was. It happens that I > > asked that question early on, and Alan Cox sent me one that says that ELKS > > would need work to run on the 80186 family. I suggest you search the > > archives of this list to find his answer. I am interested in doing this as > > well. > > Are you suggesting that ELKS wouldn't run on the 186 family for some > reason? As a test, a V30 is code compatible with the 186, as the V20 is > with the 188. As I understand it, the only thing that's special about the > 186 is that it has some hardware integrated that the 8086 and other > CPUs would have outboard. > > Does this board have the 512 flash memory mapped, or is it accessed though > an I/O port or by some other means? If you have it memory mapped, then > you'd probably have enough of the memory address range used that you'd be > lacking a BIOS area. Don't get me wrong, ELKS doesn't need to have PC > compatible hardware to run, but it would take a lot of hacking to modify > it as it seems like it relies on BIOS calls for most of it's I/O > currently. > > Dan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >