OS-9 Port
Keefsk
a download and I want to try this on the new EEE-PC from Asus which
should be a perfect platform for OS-9000. The problem is that the
distribution from Microware only includes drivers for standard PC
devices and the EEE-PC doesn't support a standard floppy, has a solid
state disk and has a new ethernet chip from Atheros (L2), furthermore
there are no standard serial ports as such. So the problem is how do I
format the solid state "IDE" drive on the EEE-PC?
I can produce a bootable floppy with coreboot, boot and bootfile and
when I use a USB floppy drive connected to the EEE-PC I get as far as
the boot menu. However I can't boot over kermit - no serial ports;
can't boot over ethernet - don't have a driver for the Atheros L2 and
am probably not capable of writing one; can't boot using a PCMCIA
device - the EEE-PC doesn't support PCMCIA; and can't continue to boot
from floppy since the booter is written only to work with an on board
floppy controller and not a USB floppy.
I have included the support for USB in my boot image but the boot menu
doesn't offer this as an option.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get round the problem? My
thoughts are (a) to somehow bypass the boot menu option altogether but
I am still not sure if this will work or (b) fool the system to
somehow boot from a USB device; the floppy would be easiest but a
flash drive may also be possible?!?
The other question I have is does anyone have experience in moving
from OS-9/68K to OS-9000? I have a complete SCADA system running under
OS-9/68K version 3.1 with 80% of the programs written in Ultra "C" and
the rest in 68000 assembler If anyone has any experience I'll start a
new thread. Thanks in advance for any help.
dasi
Hello,
If you use the standard package from Radisys you can only boot from an
on board Floppy and USB is not supported.
We have made an USB Boot driver for HD/FD and PCMCIA-Boot for the X86
family for an other customer.
For porting OS9/68k to OS9000 I suppose you to change all the OS-9
Call from OS9/68k to OS9000 and using the compatibilty-Library on your
68k system. This must run on your 68k-system with OS9000 function
calls. In the next step you can convert the 68k-assembler to the X86-
assembler files and than the code must run on your x86 system
best regards
Daniel Simon
Allan R. Batteiger
85e584...@w8g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
You need to go back to the German office and ask for the 4.9 demo. The
OS-9/X86 4.9 demo support booting from USB flash drives and has more
network drivers. I do not think the Ethernet you have has a driver yet
since it is new, but you will be able to boot from a USB flash drive a
fully function system.
As far as the porting goes the C programs should for teh most part
recompile and run. Areas that you will need to touch: any code that sets
serial ports formatting, anything messing with the process descriptor, a
couple of the system calls possibly ( if you used the _os9_xxx calls they
will need to be changed ot _os_XXX calls).
Allan R. Batteiger
Keefsk
> Keefsk <kee...@gmail.com> wrote in news:4c616dc3-2247-48eb-b835-
Hi Allan
Radisys kindly sent me the The OS-9/X86 4.9 demo package which
supports booting from USB flash drives but that doesn't work also. The
boot from USB is specific to the Radisys Procelerant CE 915GM and in
from the bootfile and coreboot that is generated with the wizard they
no longer have support for the VGA screen and the PC keyboard (you
have to use USB or an ANSI terminal). I asked Radysis if I should hand
modify the bootfile.ml and coreboot.ml textfiles before generating the
boot image and the basis answer was "no way". Rmemeber I can't use an
ANSI teminal because the computer does not support old serial ports.
If you or anyone elser has any other ideas I would be happy to try
them
Thanks
Keith