From: Edevaldo Pereira da Silva Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP for embedded PC with Flash disk only Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 09:54:23 -0300 Organization: Motorola - Semiconductor Producrs Sector Lines: 25 Message-ID: <37036C7F.57DF6D65@email.sps.mot.com> References: <7d5ihs$1jv$1 AT news DOT cadence DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: caiapo.jag.br.mot.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Andy Fox wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > I am working on a product that has a PC card (actually a PC-104 486DX card) > in it. > This will have a BIOS/DOS compatible IDE flash disk in it, and 4MB of DRAM. > I would like to use DJGPP to develop the code (protected mode, nice & easy > hardware interfaces above 1MByte etc.), but before I start the steep > learning curve, I just thought I would ask a very simple question: > > Is there anything that would preclude me from using DJGPP and DPMI in this > situation? > > The PC104 card has DOS6.2 installed on it's flash disk. > > Thanks in advance, apologies if this question has been asked previously! > > Andy. I can't imagine anything that would preclude you of doing so. But, try to not use virtual memory. Disable it completely if you can. This will make your system much more reliable and make you flash disk's life longer.