On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:14:58AM +0530, SRIDHAR wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> Although I had joined this group about a month back, I did not know
>what ELKS stood for until one of the friend announced he has completed a
>8086 based single board computer. It is really great to know Linux also
>runs on such hardware. > For the past 5 years I had been working in NT
>and I got bored and now shifting to UNIX platform which appears to be
>far more fundamental, robust and reliable. I now use NT only for word
>processing and e-mails.
>
> As regards myself, I am working in the area of Data Acquisition
>systems and Networking and had been using DOS for my embedded data
>acquisition systems. Seeing Linux has created some interest to develop
>my systems using Linux. >
> I would like to ask a few questions:
>
> 1) Is ELKS qualified for Safety applications (Eg: Plant Temperature
> Control system, and is the Kernel development controlled by some body of
> members)
The ELKS project is much smaller than you think. It is currently being
developed in our free time by a small group of hackers. There is
no official body of members, or any kind of control.
> 2) I have a 8088 based Industrial PC\XT board and is it possible to
> run Linux on it.
I would have thought that getting ELKS to run on this board would be
relatively easy, but I don't have such a board available to do the work
required.
> 3) Pl. suggest me some useful documentation and papers on this topic,
> so that I can proceed.
We have a repository of kernel documentation at this site:-
http://www.crosswinds.net/~edp/
> 4) Is this ELKS formally distributed like RedHat Linux, SuSe Linux as
> a product or is it a free product.
No. Just like RedHat and SuSE it is a free product, but it is not currently
bundled or distributed by any companies.
> 5) Pl. suggest me where I can look for software, development tools and
> procedure for embedding Linux to my harware.
Full details on getting ELKS running can be found on the main page at
http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/.
Al
