[Mark Murray]
>[Matt Dillon]
>>     Does anyone on this forum have any experience using these sorts of
>>     cards with FreeBSD and could you impart some of your general
>>     knowledge to me?  I think the forum would be interested as well.
>
> Mike Smith was doing this as least as long ago as 1999 with a 486/PC104
> at Walnut Creek.

Actually, that was a 386sx40 in an ALI PC-on-a-chip device on a board from
Mesa Electronics.

Poul's right though; most of the PC/104* boards are just PCs in an odd
formfactor.  The embedded market is very conservative (since complexity
adds overhead and many customers are small and unsophisticated) so the
systems tend to remain very backwards-compatible.

It's just the usual areas that remain problematic; power management in
particular.  However, a good vendor will document all the magic bits on
their board, so you do actually stand something of a chance of making it
work.

 = Mike



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