At 12:24 1/02/00 +0100, you nicely wrote:
>somebody tell me if it's possible to use the RTLinux kernel on a 80C186
based
>hardware or if it's a crazy idea ? And, it's possible to compile the C
source
>code with a DOS compiler and make the project in a dos environment ?
Linux and, consequently, RTLinux doesn't work on intel processors before
386 :-(
There is a porting project called ELKS, the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset,
is an open-source project designed to bring linux-like functionality to old
x86 hardware (8088, 8086, 80186, and 80286 processors) as well as for the
Psion series of processors. You can get more information about ELKS in the
ELKS Documentation Project homepage(http://www.crosswinds.net/~edp/) , or
in the ELKS homesite http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/. However it is not
complete yet, but in the way :-) , and it doesn't have any RT festures by now.
There is another Unix for old x86 called Minix, written by A.S. Tanembaum,
it has a lot of sofware available and there have been some expermiments
about given Real Time features to the Kernel (I read and article time ago,
if you keep interested I could find the reference for you). The problem is
that it has a more restrictive license than GPL or something. It is
available on Internet and the book "Operating Systems: Design and
Implementation, 2nd edition" comes with a copy of it.
I could recommend to use other RT Kernels like uCOS, although I think it
comes with another restrictive license in its latest version. It is just a
kernel that runs on top of MSDOS. It is available on Internet and there are
two books about (I forget the url and the names of the books).
Hope this helps you,
Ciao,
Juanjo
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