I had an old D-link wireless router that used an embedded 80186, had a
PCMCIA card slot, a PRISM I PC card, and some useful ports on the back.
Shame that it failed; running ELKS on that would have been like gold. A
very lucrative device to develop ELKS on for sure, but the point is that it
had the 80186 CPU (the 186 was/is an embedded-only CPU, never really used in
any general-purpose computers to my knowledge). The COM, LPT, and more than
one Realtek RTL8019, as well as the PCMCIA interface make it quite possibly
the most modern-peripheral-laden 16-bit Intel CPU in existence.
Jody
Ben Weiss wrote:
Hi Gregg,
What machine even has a 186? I now it exist[s|ed], but never knew what it was used in, always guessed some embedded stuff.
Instruction set-wise, the 186 is compatible with 8086/88 (I think it may have one or 2 more instructions), you should be good there.
The 8086 is the "lowest common denominator" of the x86 line, so really ELKS will ((should)) boot on any x86.
I'm pretty sure I downloaded some datasheets for the 186 off the net a while back.
If the machine doesn't make use of PC or SIBO architecture, then you'll need to do some hacking, but it sounds like you know that already.
-Ben
--- On Sat, 4/26/08, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system?
To: "ELKS" <linux-8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 10:05 AM
Hello!
I am looking to make use of the basic items that are part
of an I80186
based system here. (I for Intel, even though that firm made
the bad
decision to EOL and probably discontinue that line sometime
ago.)
I thought it would be appropriate to make use of ELKS for
it as
opposed to fabricating an RTOS for it from scratch. Granted
this is
asking a heck of a lot of the features found on one such
device, but
given the special nature of the I80186 and what ELKS is, it
does make
sense in a strange sort of way.
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