From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 20 22:41:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20607 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA20602 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00731; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:08:20 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710210538.PAA00731@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC/104 platform recommendations? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:59:33 -0400." <199710210459.AAA16983@whizzo.TransSys.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:08:20 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Anyone got FreeBSD running on a small (and perhaps inexpensive) PC/104 > platform? I've run it on several PC104 platforms. I have yet to find an "inexpensive" PC104 CPU card though; 386sx-based ones are still about cost-equivalent with low-end Pentiums here. Mostly with Advantech cards, and a couple of nonames. > I'm thinking about an application that would require either > a 486 or Pentium with ethernet and some parallel I/O. For a 486 or P5 you are looking at a 5.25" drive-sized board; many of these have NE2000-clone ethernet onboard and PC104. > The thing > that gives me pause looking at the glossies are how useful Flash is > on these puppies, and how "compatible" the VGA/LCD display hardware > might be.. The LCD hardware seems to usually be C&T 655xx stuff, which is well supported by XFree86. Depending on how the Flash is implemented, you can use it as a big floppy (ie. build a kernel with compiled-in MFS), or ignore it and use something else. Most of the drive-sized boards have IDE and floppy controllers as well. mike