Re: Ram , Flash requirements?

Dan Olson
2002-06-11T18:15:30Z

> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> I do not know. I simply asked whose design this unit was. It happens that I
> asked that question early on, and Alan Cox sent me one that says that ELKS
> would need work to run on the 80186 family. I suggest you search the
> archives of this list to find his answer. I am interested in doing this as
> well.

Are you suggesting that ELKS wouldn't run on the 186 family for some
reason? As a test, a V30 is code compatible with the 186, as the V20 is
with the 188. As I understand it, the only thing that's special about the
186 is that it has some hardware integrated that the 8086 and other
CPUs would have outboard.

Does this board have the 512 flash memory mapped, or is it accessed though
an I/O port or by some other means? If you have it memory mapped, then
you'd probably have enough of the memory address range used that you'd be
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.

Dan