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Re: Using termios console on PC
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: "David N. Welton" <davidw at dedasys dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:29:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Using termios console on PC
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <87u1puztr3.fsf@dedasys.com> <3CCF090B.BC4FDD09@redhat.com> <87offx5l9k.fsf@dedasys.com>
"David N. Welton" wrote:
>
> Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > "David N. Welton" wrote:
>
> > > I have attempted to utilize the termios console on the PC I am
> > > using for testing purposes. I'm not sure I took the right steps,
> > > though, and wanted to ask exactly what needs to be wired to what
> > > in order to make it work.
>
> > Not sure exactly what you mean here - termios support currently only
> > runs over serial lines.
>
> Oh, I see - thankyou. Just out of curiousity, what would it take to
> make this work for the PC screen?
Probably the best thing to do is to create a pseudo tty driver that is
really a keyboard and screen that pretends to be a serial device.
> And, to follow up on an earlier question, just what would the lines
> look like that I need to add to let the computer at the rest of the
> available memory after 0xa0000 via malloc? I'm not quite sure what it
> takes to make that work....
When booting from a floppy? Use the memory layout tool to define a "heap"
section.
Jfil
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