RE: Recommendations for 0.5 familiar?

>
> 3) I found that the bootloader has params for network booting
> (ip, nfsroot,
> nfsserver address, etc). However, the code for doing that is
> not implemente
> yet. The loader will default to boot from flash even if I
> specify "boot
> nfsroot". It will be a good thing to have that so that we
> can use the iPAQ
> as a thin client. However, probably that will blow up the
> bootloader since
> we must include some or all of tcpip stack in it.

The bootldr includes these params to pass to the OS. Since there is no
built-in ethernet on the iPAQ, it doesn't help much to pass them to the
kernel. It made sense on another platform the bootldr runs on.

Jamey
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 06:21:49 EDT