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pc386 uart handling



>>>>> "D" == D V Henkel-Wallace <gumby at zembu.com> writes:

D> At 09:34 28-09-98 +0200, VALETTE Eric wrote:
>> Most embedded PC based board use BIOS as a ROM monitor...
>> Now all BIOS support PCI 2.1...

D> I just bought a PC Minicard a couple of weeks ago that has the AMI bios
D> onboard, PC/104 header, and no PCI support.  Some embedded vendors are
D> trying to keep ISA from dying out (reported in Computer Design in the last
D> month).  An attempt that I believe will ultimately fail.

D> So in short: I think the PCI support is appropriate for inclusion with the
D> bare 386 configurations, but must always be configurable.

On the other hand, AMI BIOS have PCI support as we use it for one
of our embedded Intel board. Anyway libraries are configurable ...

--  eric