Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:11:34 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [kt-forum] Linux on a SBC |
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Zack Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Andreas C. Doering wrote: > > > Someone pointed me to the "linux kernel" list for my problem. > > Note I am no Linux expert, I even refuse to use C as possible. > > We want to use a Single Board Computer (386 EX processor, 5 MByte Flash > > ROM, > > 4 MByte dynamic RAM, SMC 91C94 Ethernet) with Linux.
What you really want is the Linux-embedded mailing list. See
http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded
4MB is doable, but 8MB+ is probably better for anything being released today.
The trickiest part with an SBC is booting and the trickiest part of booting is configuring your chipset (and the EX in this case) properly. Have you properly enabled the serial port, for instance? To debug this sort of stuff, I wrote a small polled serial library in assembly.
To get started, you might also try booting DOS if you can, and then using loadlin.exe to start Linux, which gets around some boot loader issues.
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