From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: thanks from elks newbie...!! Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:22:06 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D464CAE.8E3417AE@dit.upm.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Seemanta Dutta Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Seemanta Dutta wrote: >=20 > greetings to all the gurus... >=20 I am not one of the elks gurus, but will try to help ;-) >=20 > 1. ok i have dev86, i also have an old 286 or 386 motherboard with th= e > cpu....but how do i interface the rom or flash rom with it...in short= =2E.how > do i make the system boot from my elks kernel? >=20 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?? >=20 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 board= s or > do they use some specialised boards? frankly speaking is it really > possible to embed elks into very old and used computer mother boards? >=20 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..= =2E > where do u guys get ur docs when u started it all?? >=20 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. --=20 Una caracter=EDstica es un fallo, pero explicado diplom=E1ticamente. -------- Javier Sedano Jarillo http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano jsedano@dit.upm.es (*) jsedano@ieee.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html