Messages in this thread | | | From | "christophe leroy" <> | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:10:03 MET | Subject | Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card |
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> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:22:29 -0500 > From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@execpc.com> > To: christophe leroy <christophe.leroy5@capway.com> > Subject: Re: Linux on 386 EX SBC Card
> (off-list) > > christophe leroy wrote: > > I'm about to buy a 386 EX SBC Card from universal developers > > (www.universal-developers.com). > > This card has a Intel 386EX with 2Mbytes DRAM, 2 serial ports, > > 1 paralele port, 1 interupts controler, 1 timer, 1 Watchdog timer > > 1Mbytes flash PROM with BIOS and DOS in it. > > > > Do you think I could run linux on it ? > > No
Why do you say no ? Everyone says yes !
> > > Do I need the BIOS, or can Linux do all initialisation alone ? > > You need the BIOS to boot a stock Linux kernel (in order for it to > determine what hardware you have, do PCI scans, etc). This could > be avoided if you wrote your own bootloading code. > > > Is there a driver to access ROM as a block device ? If not can I use > > /dev/rom device MAJOR defined in devices.txt for my driver? > > You'd probably have to write your own driver since its not going to > be the stndard BIOS PROM. Not too hard. > > However, it's not going to be worth it -- with 2M of RAM Linux is barely > bootable. It's not usable. >
Even with a light libc, a tiny init and some little and useful programs ?
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