Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:39:35 +1100 From: K <hwg@stardreams.dyn.ml.org> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC/104 and picobsd Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981110013935.03c879c0@Tasha.STARDreams.org> In-Reply-To: <3646D0B0.55D997F5@biella.alpcom.it>
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At 12:23 11/9/98 +0100, Cristian Angelini wrote: >What I need now it's some more information about the use of picobsd in a >pc/104 environment. I read the info on the Mesa site, but I still lack >some basic startup hints: what items should I buy to completely develop >a prototype and so on. Are all the devices implemented on that cards >(Flash IDE, ethernet,..) completely supported by picobsd ? May I install >something like PPP on that cards ? I've also been looking at PC/104 devices and the way I see it is that they're actually full PCs, just much smaller, and they should behave pretty much as normal. The specific board I've been looking at is made by Aaeon, the PCM-5894 http://www.aaeon.com/pcm5894.htm The onboard peripherals are pretty much standard, IDE, floppy, serial ports, parallel ports.. even USB connectors (although I'm sure we won't be using those for a while yet :) The Ethernet controller is the Realtek RTL8139, which recently had driver support added thanks to the programming of Bill Paul. There are so many interesting things you could do with PC/104 systems and mobile power units for vehicles and even aircraft (some markings in the PC/104 power supply photos I've seen lead me to believe they make aircraft models), you could concievably build a portable MP3 player which could take Zip drives, LS120 drives, or CDROMs (after booting off the DiskOnChip ROM which contains PicoBSD and amp or something similar).. or a micro-router, or more.. What I'm primarily interested in is putting PicoBSD on larger media, specifically Zips/LS120, something around 100-120MB, it'd take only 2MB of space and we'd have the rest for whatever we wanted to do.. I'm testing this out, more information as it comes up. My test rig isn't quite a PC/104 implementation, but all we need is proof of concept, then it can be almost transparently adapted for that role :) Right now I'm having a slight problem building PicoBSD with the latest sources and a full source tree. I just completed a full source cvsup moments ago, the problem is still there, apparently. An attempt to build the dialup floppy with all the defaults as come preconfigured in the source, using the build script in the build directory results in this : loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 925696 1716224 99324 2741244 29d3fc ====================== stage1 started ===================== -> Preparing kernel... -> Preparing MFS filesystem... bash-2.02# The kernel is compiled properly, stage1 starts properly, the preparing MFS message pops up then the script immediately drops back to the bash prompt. It didn't use to do this in 0.31, what am I doing wrong, has the build procedure changed so vastly since I last worked on it? :) -- K "Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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