Re: Ram , Flash requirements?

Blaz Antonic
2002-06-12T03:05:56Z

> lacking a BIOS area. Don't get me wrong, ELKS doesn't need to have PC
> compatible hardware to run, but it would take a lot of hacking to modify
> it as it seems like it relies on BIOS calls for most of it's I/O
> currently.

No it doesn't; the only bit that _needs_ BIOS to work is BIOS HD/FH
driver (d'oh) - if flash is mapped to 186's memory there's no need for
such a driver, slightly modified ramdisk driver will do the trick. Other
bits (serial, parallel, direct console) don't need BIOS to work, they
just get port addresses from it (but these can be hardcoded anyway) ..
and console driver will be replaced with serial console in embedded
application.

Blaz Antonic