Re: thanks from elks newbie...!!

[Javier Sedano <jsedano@dit.upm.es>]

Seemanta Dutta wrote:
> 
> greetings to all the gurus...
> 

	I am not one of the elks gurus, but will try to help ;-)

> 
> 1. ok i have dev86, i also have an old 286 or 386 motherboard with the
> cpu....but how do i interface the rom or flash rom with it...in short..how
> do i make the system boot from my elks kernel?
> 

	Using a floppy disk. Doesn't the system have it? It it doesn't, it is
out of my scope.

	You can install later to hard disk, as well.

> 2.so i have elksemu with me now...i can emulate my programs now..but is
> there any mechanism by way of which i can directly embed my programs into
> my board... like some hardware emulators or some software to directly send
> the code into the rom chip thru the com or parallel port??
> 

	I suppose you can write an eeprom with the elks kernel an make to boot
it, but don't know how to do so using your especific card, cos I don't
know how is it (I won't, even if I knew how is it, by the way ;-)

> 3. are all the developers of elks project using used old mother boards or
> do they use some specialised boards? frankly speaking is it really
> possible to embed elks into very old and used computer mother boards?
> 

	I think the developers use old PC/XT/AT. There is also a port to the
Psion SIBO (a PDA), so I suppose it will be used there ;-)

	ELKS runs on less than 200kB or RAM, without Hard Disk, so yes, it is
possible.

> 4. is there any good documentation available for elks? i have tried
> searching the net for docs but all i got was a couple of dead links...
> where do u guys get ur docs when u started it all??
> 

	I don't think there is such a good documentation. The elks web page at
sourceforge contains most of what is documented. This list is the best
information place.

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