Luke \ writes:
> I think that we should be making more effort to get ELKS in some embeded
> systems. LKS just doesn't seem right.
I'm also pretty interested in a ROM-able ELKS kernel. For my application I'll
need network support, so I'm thinking a while down the track, but a ROM-able
kernel for BIOS-less systems would be great.
Perhaps the best way to satisfy both groups (those that do and those that don't
want to use existing BIOS calls) is to provide code stubs that implements each
BIOS call that the kernel actually uses. BIOS-less systems could link this code
in directly with the kernel ROM image and revector the appropriate interrupts
to it. We wouldn't need to implement a full BIOS; just the bits that the kernel
actually uses. Of course we'd need different versions for different chipsets,
but we could start with whatever's commonly available and work from there.
Regards,
Graham
