Re: Ram , Flash requirements?

Gregg C Levine
2002-06-12T01:28:31Z

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Actually that may have been what I posted, but I think you've not read it
correctly. I said that it would run on that processor, but that according to
Alan Cox, a worker in the field of regular Linux whose opinions I value
strongly, suggested that the onchip peripherals of the 80186 family would
only be supported with work. Or something like that. I then suggested that
the original poster should check the archives of the list for Alan's actual
answer. I copied my answer to the list, because the original poster of the
question replied only to me. I suspect he didn't realize that when you click
reply on most Microsoft mailer programs it goes the to name on the message,
not to the list. And yes, I don't doubt that normal ELKS code will run
natively on all 8086 based hardware. The 80186 is a special case because it
was designed for embedded applications. I think the sibo code would run on
it, but I don't know. That's what I am suggesting. Have you yourself tried
it? I haven't. I am basing this on my many years of experience in the field.
Gregg C Levine obiwanthejediknight@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Olson" <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
To: "ELKS" <Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: Ram , Flash requirements?

> > 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
>
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