Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:33:15 -0800 From: Kedar <kedar@asacomputers.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial I/O. Message-ID: <2.2.32.19980127223315.017e413c@gw1>
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>There are some industrial systems that offer this sort of
>functionality. What other requirements do you have for the system?
>(CPU, peripherals, etc.?)
P-II (or PPRO). 5/6 PCI. Lots of memory. Rackmount, of course.
>> > 3) The BIOS serial communications should require no fancy communications
>> > protocols, ie. we should be able to use a dumb terminal.
>This is quite specialised; depending on what you want to do with the
>BIOS you might be able to live without this if you set it up right
>beforehand.
O.K. We are thinking of having somebody customize the BIOS for this
purpose. Using SBC's. Would rather use regular motherboards. Never done
it, don't know how difficult/easy it is.
>That's asking for a lot; it sounds like what you really want is a smart
>console emulator card.
Any specific examples, please?
Thanks! :-)
Kedar.
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