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>
> christophe leroy wrote:
> > I'm about to buy a 386 EX SBC Card from universal developers
> > (www.universal-developers.com).
> > This card has a Intel 386EX with 2Mbytes DRAM, 2 serial ports,
> > 1 paralele port, 1 interupts controler, 1 timer, 1 Watchdog timer
> > 1Mbytes flash PROM with BIOS and DOS in it.
> >
> > Do you think I could run linux on it ?
>
> No
Why do you say no ? Everyone says yes !
>
> > Do I need the BIOS, or can Linux do all initialisation alone ?
>
> You need the BIOS to boot a stock Linux kernel (in order for it to
> determine what hardware you have, do PCI scans, etc). This could
> be avoided if you wrote your own bootloading code.
>
> > Is there a driver to access ROM as a block device ? If not can I use
> > /dev/rom device MAJOR defined in devices.txt for my driver?
>
> You'd probably have to write your own driver since its not going to
> be the stndard BIOS PROM. Not too hard.
>
> However, it's not going to be worth it -- with 2M of RAM Linux is barely
> bootable. It's not usable.
>
Even with a light libc, a tiny init and some little and useful
programs ?
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