From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 18 15: 7:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF1B37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FB5A43E6A for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 9272 invoked by uid 1113); 18 Aug 2002 22:07:42 -0000 Date: 18 Aug 2002 15:07:42 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:07:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Smith To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PC/104 boards. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Mark Murray] >[Matt Dillon] >> Does anyone on this forum have any experience using these sorts of >> cards with FreeBSD and could you impart some of your general >> knowledge to me? I think the forum would be interested as well. > > Mike Smith was doing this as least as long ago as 1999 with a 486/PC104 > at Walnut Creek. Actually, that was a 386sx40 in an ALI PC-on-a-chip device on a board from Mesa Electronics. Poul's right though; most of the PC/104* boards are just PCs in an odd formfactor. The embedded market is very conservative (since complexity adds overhead and many customers are small and unsophisticated) so the systems tend to remain very backwards-compatible. It's just the usual areas that remain problematic; power management in particular. However, a good vendor will document all the magic bits on their board, so you do actually stand something of a chance of making it work. = Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message