From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030717074901.B5771@agora.rdrop.com> References: <1058373491.578.32.camel@nemesis> <003a01c34c04$c8d7ec80$ebcb9ac8@master> <1058439756.8620.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1058439756.8620.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > It should boot on an 80186, 286, 386... PC just fine. For a non PC > system you'll need to do somethign about drivers The only 186/188 system I'm familar with is the Tandy 2000 and it's not an IBM PC compatible...so if by "PC" you mean and IBM clone, I'm not sure if the 80186/88 will run ELKS as-is. I raised this question a while back and the answer I got was that those CPUs have integrated hardware that was externally connected on the PC, and that hardware isn't quite connected the same on the two. I think it's definetly possible to get ELKS running on the 186, but does it need to be conpiled for such? Actually, if someone has a schematic for a simple 186 based homebrew, I'd like to see it. Does ELKS support having the console on a serial terminal yet? Dan