On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
the older versions are faster
: than the newer. The starting is the same but the shell is slower.
: Mods to tty stuff shouldn't give any sort of noticeable difference, or fs
: stuff. There is mention of changes to timer code, but I don't see why any
the older versions are faster
: than the newer. The starting is the same but the shell is slower.
: Mods to tty stuff shouldn't give any sort of noticeable difference, or fs
: stuff. There is mention of changes to timer code, but I don't see why any
: stuff like that should make any noticable
I've installed EKLS on an old 386 with 2Mbytes RAM. I've tried
several versions and I've remarked that the older versions are faster
than the newer. The starting is the same but the shell is slower.
The change is appeared between the 0.0.76 version and the next one.
Why ?
I'm a Korea. and study a ELKS.
And study a network device driver of ELKS.
I listen to delvelopment of a ELKS(a Network device
driver)-where: to Intenet.
so i'm very happy.
Help Me!!!
I want to get information of a network device driver of ELKS.
I want toreceivea E-Mail.
E
I'm trying to install elks on a 286. It is possible? I'm already did two
partitions and i installed ms-dos 6.20 on the bootable one. I have
already the developer enviroment and the sources files of the kernel. Do i
have to make a bootable floppy and then trying to install on the empty
Hi, can anyone email me a FAQ on ELKS, I dont have www access so an
url is no good.
thanks.
Hi tim,
It's just a cut and paste of the FAQfrom the ELKS site...
May this help you...
Cheers;
Pat
---
ELKS FAQ
This a list of answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ELKS, also known as
Linux-8086.
This FAQ is maintained by Alistair Riddoch, based on the origonal by Brian
Candler
is if ELKS will need runtime kernel
modules or not.
I don't understand. What is a runtime kernel module?
Jakob
(arp, udp, ping
and perhaps bootp) to ELKS to connect a embedded target to a host, and
later on I will search a more complex stack (ideas from linux or what
ever.)
Phil Blundell wrote a very simple TCP in 6502 assembler
. Probably the principial question is if ELKS will need runtime
kernel modules or not.
cristi
At 09:11 PM 6/13/00 +, you wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Cristi wrote:
I would rather wait for a solid kernel and then add networking. I
think
networking should be a module as you don't need networking
with Jedi
Knight Computers
Just out of curiosity, has someone come up with the idea for networking
for
ELKS. It seems to me, to be an easy fix.
Gregg C Levine
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use the Force, Luke. Obi-Wan Kenobi
Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait. Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Force will be with you
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Cristi wrote:
I would rather wait for a solid kernel and then add networking. I think
networking should be a module as you don't need networking everywhere.
Biulding it modular you can deal with limited resources.
I think the origional plan was to have a user
, while it does have performance
bottlenecks, is good enough for what ELKS is supposed to do. We're
trying to multitask and network on a real-mode processor with at most
640K of RAM...
--
Rafael R. Sevilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] +63 (2) 4342217
Mobile Robotics Laboratory +63
e 13, 2000 4:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding networking to the ELKS basic install kit
On 2000-06-12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
Just out of curiosity, has someone come up with the idea for
Hello everyone,
I found ELKS a few months ago when I bought a used Tandy 1400 at
Good Will. 0.83 seems to run OK (I can use vi, mount and unmount floppies,
etc). I read in the TODO file that the serial drivers need to be
tested. Since I don't have the hacking skills to build my own comm
for(i=0; i6; ++i)
;
nosound();
}
which is way too long (5 seconds) for any 8086 I've ever used (or my
Tandy's V-20). Is there something akin to bogomips that is tested by ELKS
that can be used to set the loop to some processor speed dependent value?
Use the bogomips
Risking getting another message from Topica ..
port of the ELKS machine. It seems to work fine both ways at the 9600 bps
that is the default using 'cat /dev/ttyS0' though cat seems awfully
slow. How do I set the ports to other speeds, other than modifying the
kernel source
is out there and ported to a micro or two. Only does PPP though.
It appears to be derived from KA9Q, BSD and Linux code. I think the site
is http://www.ucos-ii.com/
KA9Q is $50 a copy of non education/non amateur radio users
Alan
, I'm waiting for the day to
install it on my 286. Unfortunately I'm not experienced enough to
contribute, except for maybe doing a document translation to German...
Anyway, thanks for your work so far.
Regards,
Michael
A compact distro that would fit on a few disks and contain elks, a nice
it sounds a bit ridiculous
to me to put so much effort in bringing Elks (or Linux) up on too
small or too old-fashioned machines. And why use Elks nowadays on
Humm, I don't think so! I have a HP200LX 2MB RAM and it's dieing! It's needing
a heart (OS) transplant. I want a RDBMS running there.
FullTurtle
a heart (OS) transplant. I want a RDBMS running there. I want a X system
running there.
I'm not sure I would want to run X on the HP200lx. Ok, I know it's a nice
palmtop (I have one) but I dont think it would be fast enough or have enough
system ram (you only get 640k) to run X
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" FullTurtle
a heart (OS) transplant. I want a RDBMS running there. I want a X system
running there.
I'm not sure I would want to run X on the HP200lx. Ok, I know it's a nice
palmtop (I have one) but I dont think it would be fast enough or have
enough
system ram (you
Is the TCP/IP project totally dead, or is someone still working on it?
I have an ATT PC6300 just waiting for me to install ELKS on it, but
without a TCP/IP stack, it is of limited use to me. I **really**
want to put it back into service!! Thanks - Larry
Is the TCP/IP project totally dead, or is someone still working on it? I
have an ATT PC6300 just waiting for me to install ELKS on it, but
without a TCP/IP stack, it is of limited use to me. I **really** want to
put it back into service!! Thanks - Larry
AFAIK nobody's doing anything. I saw
Then I am missing quite a bit of recognition of the early work in
porting UNIX in the form of Minix by the group of Andy Tanenbaum.
We still have the minix format around, but Andy was one of the
first the throw open the full source code for Minix in his book:
Operating Systems, Design
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:57:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Does this mean ELKS has TCP/IP networking with PPP and/or SLIP?
Nope. Thats a totally seperate project
I have had a few replies along these lines, but networking is as Alan says,
a completely different project. It is also something I
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:12:36PM +0200, Christian Theil Have wrote:
Alistair Riddoch wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:57:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Does this mean ELKS has TCP/IP networking with PPP and/or SLIP?
Nope. Thats a totally seperate project
I have had a few
. Is there some one who is responsible coordinating for this? I'm sorry
about all my clueless questions here, but I
i'd really like to know
You have right to be confused :-) There is no (public) TCP/IP for ELKS
project and never was one. There were only few people claiming they
would do something
site and/or mailing list for this
project. Is there some one who is responsible coordinating for this? I'm sorry
about all my clueless questions here, but I
i'd really like to know
You have right to be confused :-) There is no (public) TCP/IP for ELKS
project and never was one
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:56:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
that is unusable. I was hoping to be able to get a linux derivitive on it in hopes
of
making it useable for terminal emulation as well as some standard development.
I will poke around for a while, but I don't doubt you.
Its
Alistair Riddoch wrote:
Looking at the state of the project it is no longer obvious
to me which way to
proceed. It essentially runs pretty stably on all my test
platforms, and I
have reached the point where it is no longer obvious to me
what to do next.
Any ideas anyone?
Yes. How
Hei, who's that Veronica Parsons?
Did I understand right? Did you really got to run ELKS
on a HP200lx. If you got, PLEASE let me know how you
did! I'm expecting for this moment since I heard about
ELKS the first time!!!
Thank you for any information!
--- Steve Korson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu
Looking at the state of the project it is no longer obvious to me which way to
proceed. It essentially runs pretty stably on all my test platforms, and I
have reached the point where it is no longer obvious to me what to do next.
Any ideas anyone?
Call it 0.99 announce it and go on holiday
Does this mean ELKS has TCP/IP networking with PPP and/or SLIP?
-Original Message-
From: Alistair Riddoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2000 21:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
Does this mean ELKS has TCP/IP networking with PPP and/or SLIP?
Nope. Thats a totally seperate project
dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs
Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL...
http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called FreeMWare). I am expecting this...
love
setu
dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs
Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL...
http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called FreeMWare). I am expecting this...
Also
Nicola Girardi wrote:
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote:
| dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
| If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs
Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks?
Ah
Nicola Girardi wrote:
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote:
| dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
| If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs
Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks?
Ah
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Prem Setu wrote:
dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs
Also there is alternative of VMware is under development with GPL...
http://www.plex86.org/ (it was called
But Bochs just went GPL recently, so there is some good coming out of the
vmware thing...
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Andru Luvisi wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Prem Setu wrote:
[snip]
Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac
Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs
[snip]
For those who care about this sort of thing,
rigoo wrote:
Hello everyone
I want to use ELKS on my miniboard ( 386sx, 4M ram, 8M flash),
but I am not sure that ELKS support 4M memory, because ELKS
is designd for 8086, and 8086 only support 1M memory, Any
information on this matter is going to be greatly
Hi
It is good idea to run ELKS on top of another Host OS for teaching or
learning. (developing too).
Student does not need to have 2 box. They don't need to reboot to switch OS.
There are several products to have virtual 8086 PC.
Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac
Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs
Also
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 March 2000 22:02
Subject: how much memory can ELKS support?
Hello everyone
I want to use ELKS on my miniboard ( 386sx, 4M ram, 8M flash),
but I am not sure that ELKS support 4M memory, because ELKS
is designd for 8086, and 8086
I want to know about some ELKS and Minix possibilities on net.
Does anybody knows something about ppp in Minix (especialy for 286), and
some posibilites to do that on ELKS? I prefere ELKS, but Minix had
network now!(but Minix is too insecure ( I want to compile ssh for Minix
and that is priority
s of the 1st edition
in the library of your CS faculty. The ISBN of the 2nd edition is
970-17-0165-8
Anyway, If you are very interested in ELKS, you can find some technical
papers on the ELKS site. We (at least me!!!) would be very grateful if you
wrote some essays that help people to learn how ELKS w
I am a beginer with Minix and ELKS, but I prefered ELKS (not MINIX) first
because Minixs' bad development. I actually mean that Minix's developers
don't work so hard on Minix. At the first time, I asced Al about somethin,
and I recived answers very fast, on Minix distribution I asked some
Hi Everyone!
I have started porting ELKS for ARM.
Is is somebody working similar project?
I have written ELKS Korean FAQ.
Korean is the place which will be held Worldcup in 2002 with Japan.
Sincerely,
Byungsoo Jung
Hi,
I've been doing the Psion stuff, and also have an interest in an ARM port.
Particularly with the embedded versions that contain a whole load of
peripherals (serial/dram controllers/LCD etc. etc.).
What platform/processor are you starting with? and (the big question) how
far have you got?
I have started porting ELKS for ARM.
Is is somebody working similar project?
I believe there is a ucLinux ARM project for the 7500T. (ucLinux is full
Linux without an MMU)
Alan
I'm sorry for late response. I have to sleep a little :).
Hi,
I've been doing the Psion stuff, and also have an interest in an ARM port.
I've known your great work. And I would like to assitant your work for ARM.
Particularly with the embedded versions that contain a whole load of
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alegria Loinaz. Inaki wrote:
I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple
of questions:
- Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux?
Not directly, since standard Linux programs are in 32bit code, ELKS is
mainly for 16bit
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:10:52AM +1100, David Murn wrote:
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alegria Loinaz. Inaki wrote:
I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple
of questions:
- Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux?
Not directly, since
N of the 2nd edition is
970-17-0165-8
Anyway, If you are very interested in ELKS, you can find some technical
papers on the ELKS site. We (at least me!!!) would be very grateful if you
wrote some essays that help people to learn how ELKS works.
About Linux, there are some documents and bo
Le Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:29:47PM +0100, Juanjo Marin a écrit:
About Linux, there are some documents and books about the kernel. There is
a translation of David Rusling's "The Linux Kernel" avalaible in any mirror
of LuCAS (LinUx en CAStellano). And there is a translation of a French (or
Hi
Anyone know some palmtop (or pda) computer (no HP2000Lx and Psion) based on
8086 compatible processor (or 186 or 286)?
Até mais...
Luciano José Alves
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ilha.feesc.ufsc.br/~luciano
Phones: (055)-048-234-1279 (FEESC)
"Luciano" == Luciano Jose Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luciano Hi Anyone know some palmtop (or pda) computer (no HP2000Lx
Luciano and Psion) based on 8086 compatible processor (or 186 or
Luciano 286)?
The Atari Portfolio maybe?
--
___ . . . . . + .
"Luciano" == Luciano Jose Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MV The Atari Portfolio maybe?
Luciano Tell more about this. It's good for run ELKS ?
Not sure. It has DOS 2.11 in ROM, has 128 kB of RAM (a minimum of 32
kB is used as a C: ram disk) and uses battery backed up SRAM cards f
guys the man views coding MCA drivers as "Fun"
As long as he dos not work for win-DOZe 2000 (Which I now realize refers to
the number of bugs in it not the year (Truth in Advertising)) , we
shouldn't really put any presure on him, it will all work out .
MY (red) hat is off right now
As long as he dos not work for win-DOZe 2000 (Which I now realize refers to
the number of bugs in it not the year (Truth in Advertising))
If only there were 'only' 2000 bugs!
tom
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Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
: 1) I'm not going to get any code written any time
: soon unless I quit school and quit my job and devote
: all my time to "fun" coding like this.
Well?? Which is it going to be??
I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick with school and work, Greg. ;-)
ELKS don't pay the bills
: 1) I'm not going to get any code written any time
: soon unless I quit school and quit my job and devote
: all my time to "fun" coding like this.
Well?? Which is it going to be??
A few weeks ago, I said I'd see what I could do about
writing some preliminary drivers for MCA support under
ELKS.
Wow. Talk about biting off more than I could chew.
I did a lot of library research, looking through books
and manuals for technical information about MCA
architecture. I found
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:05:30PM +0500, ghazanhaider wrote:
(1)in embedded systems of course you just cant run an OS on a processor
with no RAM. but WITH RAM and absolutely nothing else like an 8059 PIC
could you run ELKS (preferably) or something else???
You could run ELKS with nothing
(1)in embedded systems of course you just cant run an OS on a processor
with no RAM. but WITH RAM and absolutely nothing else like an 8059 PIC
could you run ELKS (preferably) or something else???
(2)what is the exact list of the standard PC features ELKS absolutely
requires... like can it live
Al,
I happended to see this bug come across the CVS, and just wanted
to make sure that you've double checked it. This was the exact area that
had to be changed relating to ELK's sys_brk() bug that disallowed
data segments 32k... I can't quite remember the original code.
Regards,
Greg
:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:25:08AM -0700, Greg Haerr wrote:
Al,
I happended to see this bug come across the CVS, and just wanted
to make sure that you've double checked it. This was the exact area that
had to be changed relating to ELK's sys_brk() bug that disallowed
data segments
: I think you may be mis-remembering the bug. IIRC the 32K bug was in
sys_brk()
: and was related to the type of the argument being signed instead of
unsigned.
I think you're right. The original bug can be reproduced by having
a small ELKS program that malloc's memory. We should be able
I have begun the ELKS Documentation Project (EDP). I will have all of the READMEs,
INSTALLs, FAQs, and technical documents I can get there. COme take a look at what I
have so far.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~edp
Let me know what you think. Any suggestions for additions are welcome.
Who's
ELKS 0.0.82 has been released and is available from the following locations:-
ftp://linux.mit.edu/pub/ELKS/kernel/elks-0.0.82/elks-0.0.82.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/elks/elks-0.0.82/elks-0.0.82.tar.gz
The release directory contains the following files:-
elks
: Re: Some q's
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, William Price wrote:
Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on
my
Tandy HD 1000
laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD. Is anyone working on this,
or
does anyone have any knowledge about it?
William Price
, not VGA.
Currently, the most-used ELKS console drivers assumes a memory-
mapped text screen at B800 or B000 (this is read from the BIOS at
startup). There is, however, a BIOS console (which needs updating)
that uses BIOS calls for character display. We could very easily
enhance this BIOS console driver
t this way, and that you actually
hook interrupt 0x19. This allows BIOS to detect various
hardware, and call any other important ROMs, such as video and
disk controller. While you (in theory) can boot directly from
the ROM, ELKS won't like you much. Apart from anything else,
quite a few driver
Hi David.
Aren't some people working on network drivers? Are they at the
stage where we can transmit and receive ethernet frames yet?
I'm not sure, but the sooner it's working, the better IMHO.
One good use I can see for networked ELKS is as a print server for the
network. Basically, all
.
The obvious question is what network adapters do you use?
3Com Etherlink and Etherlink II (3c501 and 3c503). I guess I have some
Arcnet cards toothough I don't see arcnet in Elks' near future :)
Dan
for testing ELKS
alot of the time has cassette BASIC built into its BIOS. I only
found out by accident because I took out the harddrive.
If I remember right the bios setup replaces the basic, On my
386, if you call basic (with an int or someting, did it years
ago and can't remember
Riley Williams writes:
The original setup was actually quite simple, and worked as follows:
1. On power-up, the CPU switches itself into Real mode and
starts running the BIOS POST routines.
2. After completing the POST, the BIOS scans through the rest
of the BIOS area looking
How do Video BIOS make sure they are executed before everything else?
Video BIOSes are looked for as a special case. They are normally located
from C to C8000.
. I know Tandy's flavor of DOS was mandatory for *some* reason, but I
haven't looked into it again since I first tried two years ago.
I would dearly love to use an 8086 laptop running ELKS, If I can get as much
use as I have out of DOS. I do mostly text reading/composing (in EDIT), and
also use
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
I am now stuck. I have tried a 3c509B, an SMC Ultra, and SMC 'Western
Digital' card, and various older NICS, and none of them take more than 32K.
The only remaining options are purpose build cards.
How about packing the ROM image with some
I am now stuck. I have tried a 3c509B, an SMC Ultra, and SMC 'Western
Digital' card, and various older NICS, and none of them take more than 32K.
The only remaining options are purpose build cards.
Another possibility is two NICs with a 32kB ROM each.
I am very aware of the uClinux stuff (their mailing list is very active) but
personally I think that the main kernel is too big to fit on a Palm Pilot.
Is anyone in the ELKS group planing (or doing) ELKS on the Pilot? We could
afterall nick all the stuff they have discovered about the hardware
Gregory Leblanc writes:
-Original Message-
From: Alistair Riddoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 4:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from
Yes and No.
So far ELKS has been '86 based because that is the most common architecture.
I haven't looked at the uClinux code but assume that they have set up
another (or modified) an architecture tree - so they will have drivers etc.
I only suggested it because it seems like fun (I must be mad
I don't think it would dilute the main ELKS tree, the more people that get
involve the better (even if they are just testers). Obviously nobody could
be forced to work on other ports, it's just that some may be interested in
trying it.
Personally I would like to see ELKS branch out over
: Personally I would like to see ELKS branch out over many processors (just
: like it's big brother), and hopefully conquer the 16bit world.
Could someone give a paragraph describing the Palm Pilot's CPU/memory architecture?
I thought it was a 32 bit processor, not 16 bit...
Greg
in my test machines, and the fact that I use this machine for development,
and for my job.
I think the 905 takes a flash PROM, not a UVEPROM. Besides it's PCI and
the boot ROM is mapped in by the PnP BIOS, so that's no good for ELKS.
is that this card is PCI, so wont go
in my test machines, and the fact that I use this machine for development,
and for my job.
I think the 905 takes a flash PROM, not a UVEPROM. Besides it's PCI and
the boot ROM is mapped in by the PnP BIOS, so that's no good for ELKS.
Makes sense. None of the 3com docs
I am now stuck. I have tried a 3c509B, an SMC Ultra, and SMC 'Western
Digital' card, and various older NICS, and none of them take more than 32K.
The only remaining options are purpose build cards.
Have you considered using a compressed ROM image like Etherboot does? With
that you could get
Ken Yap writes:
I am now stuck. I have tried a 3c509B, an SMC Ultra, and SMC 'Western
Digital' card, and various older NICS, and none of them take more than 32K.
The only remaining options are purpose build cards.
Have you considered using a compressed ROM image like Etherboot does?
On 13-Nov-99 David Murn wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Stefan Pettersson wrote:
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the 640 kB should we put
or own EPROM.
Sorry, my fingers wasn't syncronized with my brain. What I meant was:
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the
Stefan Pettersson writes:
On 13-Nov-99 David Murn wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Stefan Pettersson wrote:
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the 640 kB should we put
or own EPROM.
Sorry, my fingers wasn't syncronized with my brain. What I meant was:
So we are back to the
The code Christian has contributed does just this, though I have not yet
been able to get it to work as I am still tracking down a network card that
will take a 64K ROM. I have the plans for a flashcard, but have not yet
been able to get thte parts to build one.
I've seen some NE2000 clones that
Sorry, my fingers wasn't syncronized with my brain. What I meant was:
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the 640kB..1024kB range should
we
put or own EPROM.
Somewhere free from C8000 to F.
BTW, neither BIOS nor cassette ROM map to low memory--BIOS starts in the
0E range for PS2s, 0F for normal ATs, cassette Basic having a
start of about 0F6000. This might provide some interesting
consequences, as the Linux Kernel maps BIOS with all zeros, the
BIOS being unnecessary to the
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Stefan Pettersson wrote:
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the 640 kB should we put
or own EPROM.
On x86 you've got 20 address lines, this is 0-1mb. What do you think the
space is reserved for from 640k-1024k? ROMs. When the system boots, it
will probe
This is unverified, but
I think the Basic-hook is still there, untouched.
But some of the EPROM area reserved for Basic has been used for the setup
subprograms.
So we are back to the usual problem, where in the 640 kB should we put or own
EPROM.
Nowhere. There is a memory area meant for
boot directly from the ROM, ELKS won't like you much. Apart
from anything else, quite a few drivers, notably the disk and console
drivers generally use BIOS calls.
Davey
Actually, 'format' simply means 0x55aa at the start of the image, and the
3rd byte contains the number of 256 byte pages in the ROM. Nothing else
is involved in the 'format'.
0x55aa
number of 256 word = 512 byte pages
entry point, entered with long jump and cs = segment of ROM
All the bytes in
conections over the internet,but our elks will not need such long
distance connections ever.
No, IP is more ingenious than you think. You can scale it both up and down.
If you skip all fancy IP options, it's very simple and doesn't take much
memory at all. IP/ICMP/UDP can be done in 1-2 kb (I have
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