From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: JBRUCHON Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system? Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:17:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4814ED62.1020305@nc.rr.com> References: <234567.12942.qm@web50511.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <234567.12942.qm@web50511.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ELKS 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 wrote: > >> From: Gregg Levine >> Subject: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system? >> To: "ELKS" >> 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 >> "This signature was once found posting rude >> messages in English in the Moscow subway." >> -- >> 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 > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > -- > 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 >