Re: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system?

[JBRUCHON <jbruchon@nc.rr.com>]

I had an old D-link wireless router that used an embedded 80186, had a 
PCMCIA card slot, a PRISM I PC card, and some useful ports on the back. 
Shame that it failed; running ELKS on that would have been like gold.  A 
very lucrative device to develop ELKS on for sure, but the point is that it 
had the 80186 CPU (the 186 was/is an embedded-only CPU, never really used in 
any general-purpose computers to my knowledge).  The COM, LPT, and more than 
one Realtek RTL8019, as well as the PCMCIA interface make it quite possibly 
the most modern-peripheral-laden 16-bit Intel CPU in existence.

Jody

Ben Weiss wrote:
> Hi Gregg,
> 
> What machine even has a 186? I now it exist[s|ed], but never knew what it was used in, always guessed some embedded stuff.
> Instruction set-wise, the 186 is compatible with 8086/88 (I think it may have one or 2 more instructions), you should be good there. 
> The 8086 is the "lowest common denominator" of the x86 line, so really ELKS will ((should)) boot on any x86.
> I'm pretty sure I downloaded some datasheets for the 186 off the net a while back. 
> If the machine doesn't make use of PC or SIBO architecture, then you'll need to do some hacking, but it sounds like you know that already.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> --- On Sat, 4/26/08, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system?
>> To: "ELKS" <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
>> Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 10:05 AM
>> Hello!
>> I am looking to make use of the basic items that are part
>> of an I80186
>> based system here. (I for Intel, even though that firm made
>> the bad
>> decision to EOL and probably discontinue that line sometime
>> ago.)
>>
>> I thought it would be appropriate to make use of ELKS for
>> it as
>> opposed to fabricating an RTOS for it from scratch. Granted
>> this is
>> asking a heck of a lot of the features found on one such
>> device, but
>> given the special nature of the I80186 and what ELKS is, it
>> does make
>> sense in a strange sort of way.
>>
>> -- 
>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com
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