Alistair Riddoch wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I have become much more interested in the possibility of running
> ELKS on actual embedded systems, rather than a Linux for old PCs. I have
> no plans for cutting down development of Linux-8086, but would like to add
> options to the kernel config to make it possible to build a system which
> can do something that is useful to people buidling single board embedded
> 80x86 systems.
>
> Unfortunatly I have little grounding in this field, so I am not sure what
> is required.
>
> I would therefore like some pointers to texts that would give me an answer
> to the following questions:
>
> What sort of features are required for this type of system? It seems to me
> that a filesystem is not all that important with no storage.
IMHO, a file system is rarely required.
> Are device
> drivers, interrupt handling and memory management the types of features
> required?
Yes.
> What sort of real-time features to such operating systems generally have?
>
> What type of API is the application code going to use? Is the UNIX system
> API any use at all?
>
> Are embedded applications run as stand-alone binaries, or do they get
> linked into the kernel and run as kernel threads?
Stand-alone binaries would often be sufficient.
> Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of a cheap SBC with an x86 CPU,
> EPROM, RAM and a serial interface at least on?
>
> Al
The cheapest boards I've seen advertised are at http://www.jkmicro.com,
but I haven't tried one myself yet.
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