Flash Chip numers on x30

Hi,

Just saw your comment on the hardly readable and cryptic
numbering on the flash chips used in the x30 on the
AximX30 linux status page. I'm just guessing and this
won't affect your development, but Micron manufactures
(and sells) flash chips, that are fully compatible to
Intel's StrataFlash chips (at least regarding the J3 type)
and that even identify as Intel chips through the software
interface. These often (always?) have hardly readable and
cryptic writing on the chip, that doesn't even contain
a 'standard' manufacturer letter-code. (I'm working
professionally in embedded firmware and OS development
(not PocketPCs, though) and got this info from our company's
hardware department after wondering about different flash
chips being used on our own hardware platform. Some with
the familiar Intel i28fxxxJ3 writing, some with the hardly
readable cryptic writing.)

Different question: I'm thinking about buying a PocketPC
myself and getting Linux to run on it (even helping with
development). Hardware-wise I'm very interested in the
Dell Axim x50 (esp. the x50v), which also uses a PXA27x
CPU. Do you have any clue whether a x30-Linux would already
be able to get at least some debugging messages out on some
kind of console on the x50 (serial, IrDA, USB, LCD -- okay,
most probably not on the LCD of the x50v due to its 3D-graphics
accelerator)?

BTW: Does the key combination to restore an original (Dell)
CE-image from a CF-Card as described for the Axim x5 work on all
other Axims (x3, x30, x50) as well?

Thanks for the info,
        Marc-Oliver Westerburg
Received on Thu Jan 06 2005 - 17:49:36 EST