On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:33:37PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eh, can you verify that they exist? There is nothing on that site that > is dated later than year 2000, and the FAQ says "we are working like > crazy on the PCI version". The demo, faked as it may be, does not work > for me. Have you seen the h/w? >
Other then their pictures I haven't seen the h/w, nor can I verify that they exist. Since it looks like neither you nor me are going to put ~$300 for the h/w I believe that discussing their existence doesn't worth the time. > > Does anyone aware to a FLOSS projects which makes such an > > appliance? > > RealWeasel say they are open source (at least if you buy h/w). I > didn't find the particular license. Or the code. > I missed that saying. The code might be interesting to look at but neither of us were able to see where it is. Leaving aside their h/w, I think that the minimal requirements for such a project are: H/W: a PC card with CPU and serial port that would be able to run Linux, perhaps from an on board flash memory. Like what RealWeasel seems to be doing, it also need to have a keyboard output to feed the host keyboard input. S/W: Putting aside the question of how that card will boot, essential components are the ability to emulate a display card for the host PC as well as establishing a serial communication with the remote terminal. The keyboard entries at the remote terminal should be fed back to the keyboard input of the host. The kernel the card will run might be trimmed to a bare minimum. Another thing that must be looked into is the fact that basically the card should be up and running before the host's BIOS is looking for its display or keyboard facilities. > > What is required to load a one board computer with a dedicated Linux > > software that does just that? Do be as detailed as possible. Details > > like the complete C source for this task will be appreciated :). > > Check out LinuxBIOS. http://www.linuxbios.org. > I won't try that because there is a high probability that I will render the m/b useless due to the fact that I can not install BIOSes back and forth as many times as I want to. -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
