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Additional serial drivers & file systems & redboot for i386 targets
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- Subject: [ECOS] Additional serial drivers & file systems & redboot for i386 targets
- From: Teng Chee Wan Philip <tcheewan at dso dot org dot sg>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:25:07 +0800 (SGT)
- References: <000701c0df6d$1eedbca0$c408aa0a@inc.inventec>
Hi,
I have a few questions about the i386 PC:
1. The i386 PC target has 2 serial ports. I would like to add a serial I/O
card to it to get more serial I/O ports and write a serial I/O driver for it.
What would be the neatest way to do it? The serial I/O card needs some
additional initialisation to 'activate' it. Do I modify
packages/io/serial/v1_3_1/i386/pc_serial.c and the corresponding .cdl file
directly? I hope to use the configuration tool to enable or disable the driver
depending on whether the serial card is installed or not.
2. I read some exchanges about having a DOS Filesystem on ECOS. Personally, I
felt this will be useful, esp for my application where I need to store large
amount of data on harddisks. Is this coming in the foreseeable future?
Meanwhile, is there any way I can make use of the harddisk to store my data
under ECOS? Using raw filesystems(if any)or other formats?
3. Is redboot supported on i386 target? I can't find any. Is there any reason
why redboot is not supported? Or are we just waiting for someone to develop it?
regards,
Philip Teng