Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:08:20 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC/104 platform recommendations? Message-ID: <199710210538.PAA00731@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:59:33 -0400." <199710210459.AAA16983@whizzo.TransSys.COM>
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> > 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
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