From: "Vikas Kumar" <walburn@gmail.com>
To: Dave Mills <dave@webshed.org>
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minimum RAM for ELKS?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:34:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <792c60620605150934l78bd0e66m2cec38e64593d888@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4468A9C2.40703@webshed.org>
Hey Dave
Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever your target machine
has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF it works on this
setting, it should work on your target hardware as well.
Vikas
On 5/15/06, Dave Mills <dave@webshed.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system at some time in the
> near future. The system has very minimal RAM (~200k). Does anyone have
> any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS in such a low RAM
> configuration? I realise that I'll probably not get much more than the
> kernel booting, as other software running will require more RAM than I have.
>
> Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my application prints "I'm
> alive!" over the serial port is my first target.
>
> cheers,
> Dave
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 16:18 Minimum RAM for ELKS? Dave Mills
2006-05-15 16:34 ` Vikas Kumar [this message]
2006-05-15 19:52 ` Tom McCabe
2006-05-17 10:05 ` Dave Mills
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