From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Vidhiyadharan?= Subject: Re: Ram , Flash requirements? Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 06:43:16 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020612054316.578.qmail@web13508.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3D06BA94.5DCD@havn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D06BA94.5DCD@havn.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: blaz.antonic@havn.com Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Thanks to all, We have our 512Kb flash memory mapped.We have a keypad and a LCD display. We have also developed a PC like bios for our system. We have 2 serial ports & 1 can be used for console. Therefore from your discussion i come to know that it is possible to port ELKS to this board. Is there any documentation for ELKS kernel ?. ThankYou vdharan --- Blaz Antonic wrote: > > 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. > > No it doesn't; the only bit that _needs_ BIOS to work is BIOS HD/FH > driver (d'oh) - if flash is mapped to 186's memory there's no need > for > such a driver, slightly modified ramdisk driver will do the trick. > Other > bits (serial, parallel, direct console) don't need BIOS to work, > they > just get port addresses from it (but these can be hardcoded anyway) > .. > and console driver will be replaced with serial console in embedded > application. > > Blaz Antonic > > - > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com