Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:07:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Smith <msmith@magnesium.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PC/104 boards. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208181503360.8966-100000@toxic.magnesium.net>
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[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
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