<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM Chris Johns <<a href="mailto:chrisj@rtems.org">chrisj@rtems.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 14/1/20 9:40 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:<br>
> I was looking for a recommendation as a cheap test PC option. <br>
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> I was considering the Minnowboard but it looks like <a href="http://minnowboard.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">minnowboard.org</a><br>
> <<a href="http://minnowboard.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://minnowboard.org</a>> is dead which makes me a bit vervois. It has 64-bit<br>
> BIOS. Did we ever get far enough where this might work?<br>
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No as it only has UEFI booting.<br>
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> <a href="https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.netgate.com/Turbot4.aspx</a> <br>
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It may have the same problem as the Minnow boards, ie UEFI booting only.<br>
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> Does anyone have any recommendation? Doesn't have to be fancy. Just a UART for<br>
> console and no development required to make the PC work with RTEMS. :)<br>
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I have an old ITX board. It is sooooooo sloooooowwww net booting.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have an old Winsystems board of similar size which has a PC104 slot.</div><div>It has a MultiIO card on it which according to Lou is still available.</div><div>But it can be slow booting also.</div><div><br></div><div>I was looking at the PCs here which list COM ports. I got far enough with</div><div>one to look at the manual for the BIOS screens. Couldn't quite convince</div><div>myself it had legacy boot. Maybe you will have more luck.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Chris<br>
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