On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:44:33 +0300 (MSK), Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 30-ÐÐÑ-2004 02:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (9000 VAX) wrote to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 9V> I am developing a hobby project where freedos kernel might be a nice > 9V> fit. There are CPU (80188), memory (256K, 512K, or even 1M if > 9V> needed), one serial line and IDE (barely some I/O ports?) or SCSI > 9V> (this is ready on my board) interface on board. Now I want to hook an > 9V> HD with FAT file system to the board. The board will have a small bios > 9V> to load a program from the HD and execute it. The program will then > 9V> use the HD to hold configuration files and to store some data. A FAT32 > 9V> file system is super, but a FAT16 is OK if FAT32 is difficult. > 9V> My question is whether this goal is feasible *to me*. I can > 9V> trim/integrate/modify pre-existing codes. > > Until mentioned board contains BIOS, which follows all specifications, > you may use FD without any modification. On the other side, if under "hook > and HD" you mean "hook on the fly", then you can't - neither standard > BIOSes, nor any DOS support hot swapping, for this you should write your own > device driver, but this aplied for any DOS. There is no BIOS on board unless I write one. Is there a list of BIOS functionality that is required by FreeDOS kernel? I need only the file management and program load/exec part of FreeDOS. Is there a list of BIOS functionality that is required by this part of FreeDOS? I might need to take a look of the kernel code if such a list does not exist.
> > 9V> I can write codes that make > 9V> the raw R/W to the HD. Anything else (eg, serious kernel hacking) will > 9V> be a big challenge thus is not feasible *to me*. I know that FreeDOS > 9V> kernel provides the functionality, but I don't know how much I need to > 9V> do before a trimmed FreeDOS kernel can run on my rather minimal > 9V> hardware. Thank you. > > FD should run on this your "minimal hardware" without trimming. Thank you! That's good news. vax, 9000 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-kernel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
