From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Ram , Flash requirements? Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020612130029.W40423-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: <002401c211b0$76fb6b60$9460580c@who> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <002401c211b0$76fb6b60$9460580c@who> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ELKS > 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. That could very well be, I was under the impression that the 186 was just an 8086 but with some the other outboard chips used on the PC integrated. I was at one point hoping to try to build my own 186 board.....but that hasn't happened :) It looked perty straight forward, if a large static RAM is used, then the memory, RAM, and BIOS ROM would be a large portion of a motherboard! Maybe that's wishfull thinking. Maybe someone will try and and report back. Anyone have a spair Tandy TRS-80 2000 laying around? 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. That's actually because the "reply to" field isn't the list, but the sender. None of the other lists I'm on are that way. 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. I don't know, I'm just basing this on what I read in a giant PDF I found on the intel web site that includes the data sheet for the 188 and 186. Like I say, maybe someone else out there will be able to give it a try. I might even donate a CPU to the cause :) Dan