From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teng Chee Wan Philip To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: [ECOS] Additional serial drivers & file systems & redboot for i386 targets Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 02:25:00 -0000 Message-id: <990177907.3b04ea73bd790@demerzel.dso.org.sg> References: <000701c0df6d$1eedbca0$c408aa0a@inc.inventec> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00291.html Hi, I have a few questions about the i386 PC: 1. The i386 PC target has 2 serial ports. I would like to add a serial I/O card to it to get more serial I/O ports and write a serial I/O driver for it. What would be the neatest way to do it? The serial I/O card needs some additional initialisation to 'activate' it. Do I modify packages/io/serial/v1_3_1/i386/pc_serial.c and the corresponding .cdl file directly? I hope to use the configuration tool to enable or disable the driver depending on whether the serial card is installed or not. 2. I read some exchanges about having a DOS Filesystem on ECOS. Personally, I felt this will be useful, esp for my application where I need to store large amount of data on harddisks. Is this coming in the foreseeable future? Meanwhile, is there any way I can make use of the harddisk to store my data under ECOS? Using raw filesystems(if any)or other formats? 3. Is redboot supported on i386 target? I can't find any. Is there any reason why redboot is not supported? Or are we just waiting for someone to develop it? regards, Philip Teng