Minimum RAM for ELKS?
Hi,
I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system at some time in the near future. The system has very minimal RAM (~200k). Does anyone have any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS in such a low RAM configuration? I realise that I'll probably not get much more than the kernel booting, as other software running will require more RAM than I have.
Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my application prints "I'm alive!" over the serial port is my first target.
cheers,
Dave
Hey Dave
Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever your target machine has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF it works on this setting, it should work on your target hardware as well.
Vikas
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Hi,
I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system at some time in the near future. The system has very minimal RAM (~200k). Does anyone have any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS in such a low RAM configuration? I realise that I'll probably not get much more than the kernel booting, as other software running will require more RAM than I have.
Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my application prints "I'm alive!" over the serial port is my first target.
cheers,
Dave
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Quoted 9 lines · --- Vikas Kumar
Hey Dave
Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever your target machine
has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF it works on this
setting, it should work on your target hardware as well.Vikas
I remember there being an option in the ELKS configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640 KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup).
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Hi,
I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system
at some time in the
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near future. The system has very minimal RAM
(~200k). Does anyone have
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any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS
in such a low RAM
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configuration? I realise that I'll probably not
get much more than the
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kernel booting, as other software running will
require more RAM than I have.
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Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my
application prints "I'm
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alive!" over the serial port is my first target.
cheers,
Dave
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Hey Dave
Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever your target machine
has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF it works on this
setting, it should work on your target hardware as well.
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Vikas
I remember there being an option in the ELKS configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640 KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash isn't linked to
/bin/sh, it crashes on bootup).
Thanks Vikas & Tom. I'll give the bochs idea a try. I'm really just trying to get the smallest kernel running that I can.
cheers,
Dave